Under the Weather

Evan's been a bit under the weather the past few days. We've had to keep him home since Monday due to his high fever. We couldn't get an appointment to see his pediatrician until next Monday (crazy)! So we had to go to one of the local urgent care clinics. They took Evan right away due to his fever; but the doctor on call ruled out an ear infection and gave us a prescription for amoxicillan anyway just as a precaution.

Late today his fever finally stayed down instead of spiking like it's been doing since Monday. He still doesn't have his eye teeth yet, so maybe they are coming in.

Here is a pic from the Sierra Vista March for Babies the other weekend.

Trying to Get Out of Daycare Early

I got a call today from daycare, this time it was that Evan was running a fever (102 degrees). Poor guy was all red in the face when we picked him up. The big worry is with all the RSV cases, that possibly Evan was picking it up late. I called the doctor's office (at 2pm on a Friday, good luck getting anyone)...one of the nurses called us back. She reassured us that if Evan had RSV it would be very evident. We gave him some Tylenol and his fever eventually broke. We figured it was Evan's old way of getting out of daycare early on a Friday. ;-)

4/20/07: Day 280 (Fri.) Big Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who sponsored Evan in Sierra Vista's Walk America event that will take place tomorrow. Over $400 was raised! We'll be walking with friends who are walking for Mya (Joey P's granddaughter who was born at 24 weeks in Phoenix). She is looking great! Joey and Deb will be walking with Justine up in Phoenix, so you can see pics from that event on Joey's blog (listed on the right side of our blog).

Evan came down with a fever today, so fingers crossed he will be o.k. for the walk tomorrow!

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Chronological age: 40 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 7 months, 0 weeks and 3 days
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3/30/07: Day 259 (Fri.) Playing Hooky with Grandma

Evan got to play hooky from daycare today with grandma. He's tolerating the nebulizer treatments a bit better. The children's mask we have to use is cute, it's a dragon, so it looks like he's a fire-breathing dragon with it on. I'll try to get a picture. His fever is still up a bit, so we're still giving him the infant Tylenol.
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Chronological age: 37 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 2 week and 0 days
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3/29/07: Day 258 (Thurs.) Ear Infection :-(

We kept Evan home today due to his fever coming and going. His doctor appointment was at 2pm. We didn't get to see Dr. Ettinger, but one of his nurse practitioners, Jean. She was quick to diagnose both ears were infected, poor guy! He wasn't showing any of the typical signs of an ear infection, just running a fever from yesterday. We anticipated that he had some respiratory funk going on since he had an odd cough from last week. She listened to his chest and said that he sounded very squeaky.

She ordered up an albuterol nebulizer treatment in the office and a mega-dose antibiotic shot. Evan hated the nebulizer and scremed his head off the whole time. At least we knew he was breathing in deeply with all the screaming. To make things worse, they gave him the shot afterwards. One of the thick shots that takes about a minute to push through.

So, needless to say, Evan was not a happy guy! Jean said his chest did sound better after the treatment. As a follow-on, we have to give him home nebulaizer treatments every 4-6 hours and a twice daily dose of liquid antibiotic (it actually tastes like candy). We have to see Dr. Ettinger on Monday to see how he's improving.
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Chronological age: 36 weeks and 6 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 1 week and 6 days
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3/28/07: Day 257 (Wed.) Running A Fever

Just what we were waiting for since Evan started daycare...his first fever! One of the teachers called around 1pm to say he was running a fever of 100.7 degrees. At 101 he has to be taken home. Since T was planning on leaving work earlier, he picked him up from daycare. Luckily we already had a doctor's appointment scheduled for tomorrow.
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Chronological age: 36 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 1 week and 5 days
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