Issac's Hospital Experience

Most of you know already that Isaac over this past week was in the hospital because of a severe viral infection. Even though it was really hard on him I know that we were blessed because of your thoughts and prayers. I'd like to personally thank all of those who helped us out by way of visits, food, phone calls, time, concerns, etc. Thank you so much. We truly feel blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. Just to give you a recap of what happened, when we got back from a rainy camp out the Saturday before this ordeal, this is what Isaac looked liked minus the green mucus that he was draining. (didn't think that would have been to appetizing) His eyes were like this all day Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, until we got some eye drops for him which helped to clear his eyes by around Thursday. Unfortunately though, by Thursday Isaac was having fevers of up to 103.8 and wasn't eating hardly anything. Without an appointment I took him straight to our Pediatrician who looked him over and told us that his throat was red and pussy and that we needed to have his blood taken for a blood culture. So we did that around 3 not thinking anything else about it until Austin got a call from the doctor saying we needed to go immediately to get him x-rayed because his white blood cell count was at 26 (it's suppose to be at 6 or 7 normally) meaning a severe infection and also his inflammation count was at a 3.1 (suppose to be at a 1) so at 8 we took him to get x-rayed to see if he had pneumonia. Than after those results, which were negative, we had to go see another doctor in Orem to look him over again. He took about 3 minutes to tell us to get him to the hospital on an IV and antibiotics. So around 11 o'clock that night Isaac was getting pricked again for an IV and finally at 1 in the morning he was asleep, but only to be woken at 3 because his fever went up to 103 again and than at 5 to get his blood drawn again. It was definitely a difficult night. The next day the nurses told me his white blood cell count had gone up again to 28 so they were going to do tests on him to try to figure out where this infection was coming from. So that is what we did the whole time at the hospital, Isaac getting his blood drawn, not eating, getting held down, fevers, and rashes. Let's just say he didn't like any new faces that entered the room. He'd just start crying. Finally on Saturday though, Isaac started eating a little bit so this gave us hope that recovery was occuring. Then on Sunday he was looking very well and was eating much better and that's when we were able to head home. It was a crazy weekend but I know that Heavenly Father blessed us tremendously. Thanks again to everyone who helped out our little family!

On the second day there, both Isaac and myself were feeling a bit claustrophobic so I asked the nurses if we could take a walk around the hospital. They looked him over to see how he was doing and gave us permission. On our way out our nurse surprised us with this really cool hot red wagon! He loved it, I promise, even though his face in these pictures don't show any sign of that. It's not like I just took these pictures, I was really trying hard to make him smile. I was jumping up and down and making funny faces. Other people were laughing, just not Isaac.

Here are some pictures of Isaac on the mend. Around this time we knew we were gonna head home soon. Finally after three nights in the hospital we could go home, and that was a nice treat for Austin for Father's Day. Of course he finds his IV to be somewhat string like and you know hoe he loves string. He would not stop chewing on it, or this little green plastic thing that was attached to it. I didn't care, this was a huge sign for me that he was feeling better and that's all I cared about.

He was bored okay. There were only so many toys there he could play with.

YUM YUM