Growth
As of 06/19/2008:
Weight: 26 lbs. 15 oz.
Height: 30.5 in.
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10/30/2007
Thursday night Dean came down with a fever so I called the doctors office and they said give him some tylenol and bring him in first thing in the morning. So Friday morning I took him to the doctors office and they expressed some concern due to his age. They said to come back on Saturday morning and that they would be in touch with me throughout the day on Friday to make sure nothing is wrong. So I went home and the doctors office called at about noon and said they wanted him to get his blood drawn to make sure there was nothing wrong. So I took his temp and he had a fever again and so I called the docs back and made an appointment for him at 1:45. SO I took him to te Hospital to get his blood drawn and it took then three pokes to get his blood. Then we went straight back to the doctors office. We were there for 2 hours waiting for the blood work to come back. All the blood work that we could get back that day came back fine and totally normal. So the doctor said to coem back for my appointment that I had on Saturday to check back in. So Friday night at about 10:30 I took Dean's temp and it was back up to 101.7. So I called the doctor and he said go to the ER and get a Urine test done. So we went down there and they took his urine to run a culture on it and tried to draw some more blood for another round of tests. There were two OB nurses ad an NICU traveling nurse that tried a combined total of seven pokes and no one got the IV in and no one got any blood. SO then the ER doctor came in and drew his blood and did not get an IV in. So at about 2am they got the urine results back and they were positive for an infection. So the pedi doctor said we needed to admit Dean for further testing and better medications. So at about 4am on Saturday we finally got to the room and I fell asleep at about 5:30am. At 6am the nurses work me to start trying more testing on Dean and try to get an IV in him because they wanted to administer his anti-biotics via IV instead of IM. So they had more nurses come in and try another 5 times to get an IV in and NADA. No dice. So, then we got his blood culture results back and they were also positive for bacteria. They doctor then came to the hospital to look at the cultures herself to make sure they were of the same make up. They were. So then come Saturday night they did a spinal Tap on Dean and drew some of his spinal fluids to check for spinal meningitis. That came back negative, YAY!. So then Sunday the anastisiologist came in to sedate him to try to get the IV in because at that time it was critical that he get his meds through an IV. They tied two times to put the IV into his head and the another two time in the side of his neck. Still no IV. So then the doctor decided to transfer him to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital where they have a top notch NICU/Peds unit. So Sunday we went via ambulance to SRMH and on the way Deans O2 Saturation dropped to a dangerous level of 50%. We had to put him on oxygen and that still wasnt getting his level up and he wasnt being able to hold it up him self. So I finally got it stable without the help from the darn EMT who just sat there. The Driver of the ambulance had to pull over so I could get it under control. Nice right? So we got to the hospital and they started doing more tests right off the bat. He had an ultra sound done Sunday along with more people trying to get the IV in. No one could do it. Monday came with more people trying to get blood and the IV in. They finally came to terms with the fact that the IV was not going to happen. Tuesday they did one blood draw that took three pokes along with an x-ray of his bladder to see if his urine "refluxed" back into his kidneys. Everything came back negitive along with a second urine culture they did. SO now we are home and have to go to the doctors office every morning for the next ten days for him to get his medication via Im (intramusclular). Then oral meds for four days after that. Thank GOD we are home!
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