Tuesday I got a call from the school, Noah had a fever and needed to come home. His fever wasn't super high, but was the only symptom of being sick that he had. That's scary. I like for there at least to be a runny nose to blame it on. All day Tueslday he just laid around, we rotated Tylenol and Motrin and at bedtime it was 103.5. Still not too high, but enough to worry. He had just gotten over a stomach bug (well, he was still having the throw downs, but the worst part was over), and he was being treated for pink eye, and I didn't know, but in my head blamed the fever on those two ailments.
The next day he wakes up, no fever, but it hasn't been a full 24 hours since the fever so he stays home with me. I heard a few coughs here and there, nothing astonishing, just normal asthma kid coughs. It was my mom's birthday so we ran out and got her a present and she came for a visit. Noah was taking a nap and she left before she got to see him. When he did wake up his fever had come back and he was coughing really bad., and after every cough struggling to get breath back. He had a breathing treatment and tylenol and I called the pulmonary doctor. Noah had fallen back asleep.
I was on the phone with the nurse from the pulmonary office when Noah woke up. He started yelling "Mama, my neck hurts." Over and over. Neck pain + fever= not good. The nurse told us to that he needed to be seen that day. I call Nick, and call Nick and call Nick. No answer. He's at school so his phone is off, I call his sister, his mom, thinking someone can get a hold of him. During that time the nurse calls back and says that we should probably just go to the ER. Nick finally calls back and I tell him we need to go to the hospital. He leaves schopol and heads home. Then the pulmonary doctor calls and tells us how severe this could be, that he was calling the ER and they would be waiting on us.
When we get to the ER it's full. Noah has to wear a mask just in case he has meningitis. They get us back first thing and they run a bunch of physical tests and are able to rule out meningitis. The neck pain was probably just a body ache from the fever. After urine tests, chest xrays, blood tests and a flu test he's diagnosed with pneumonia.
At this point there hasn't been a secondary asthma attack, which we are trying to keep at bay with albuterol and when I call the pulmonary doctor will probably be added another round of prednisone (which he just finished 2 weeks ago).
Ben woke up feverish and coughing, so we're going to try and bypass the ER and get a ped appointment this morning and get him started on antibiotics so that we can stay out of the hospital!
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