Alex and the ER

Ugh. So yesterday we ended up spending 6 hours between the urgent care and the ER with Alex. He woke up from his nap with a 103.7 degree temperature. That was a little high for my comfort level so off we went to the urgent care. Well, they poked and prodded him trying to find out what was wrong with him. I felt so bad. The poor guy had nose swabs, throat swabs, and blood sticks. They analized the blood and determined that he had elevated white blood counts so they told us we needed to head to the ER. So off we went to the ER where they proceeded to all the tests over that they did at the Care Now and then some. The poor kid was swabbed, rectal temped, catherterized, xray'ed, given shots, and more. He was so tired by the end of it that he fell asleep in my arms (and of course had to be woken up to have another rectal temperature 15 minutes later *sigh*). They gave him a shot of antibiotics and then he had to see the ped today (where they gave him another shot) and again tomorrow to make sure he's ok. It was diagnosed as an "unknown viral infection" so we don't know what caused it. Hopefully all is well now though. the poor guy's had a rough 2 weeks. :(

On a side note, I can't remember if I mentioned this or not but Alex has had both his 7th and 8th tooth come through as well. Alot going on for such a small guy. He seems to be taking it better than I would though.