Once again, I find myself writing that we have been busy! Such is our life!
After our last post, we had a bit of an interesting weekend with Payton. After starting round 4 of antibiotics for the famous ear infection, Payton seemed to get worse rather than better. On Friday, Febuary 5th, we had planned to take Payton to school while Chad and I headed to my 20 week ultrasound to find out if Baby Webb #2 is a boy or a girl. Payton had different plans! We had a very rough night and it was soon obvious that Payton was not going to be able to go to school. Luckily, Lindsey (at the time, only 48 hours away from delivery of Baby Alex) offered to keep Payton. She had offered the day before and I had turned her down. As we were pulling out of the neighborhood, still planning to take Payton to school, we realized we had an impossible plan. Many thanks to Lindsey who saved the day...and agreed to watch Payton as we were already driving to her house. A sick little Payton enjoyed his morning with his best bud, Ella. We had no idea that he was such a sick little boy otherwise we would have never taken him to be around Ella who was very close to becoming a big sister! We will be forever grateful to Lindsey and definitely owe her a round of babysitting!
We were overjoyed to get a great report from the ultrasound and happy to hear that Payton did great with Ella and behaved for a very pregnant Lindsey. The day quickly went downhill. Payton woke up from his nap with a fever of 103.7 - I had already been giving him Tylenol for his ear but not for a fever. I quickly gave him Motrin as well. After 45 minutes I rechecked his temperature. I was shocked when his rectal temp read 105.2. Rechecked two more times - shocked again that it seemed correct - and called the doctor. He was very sluggish but I would have never guessed his fever would have been so high. By 6:00 we were making our 1st trip to the MUSC Pediatric ER. Amazingly enough, he did great. By the time we arrived in the ER, his temperature had dropped back to 103 and he had perked up a little. The exam revealed that his ears still looked terrible and the decision was made to give Rocephin injections (a strong antibiotic given in the muscle). The bad news was that the amount of the injection had to be divided into two shots (one in each thigh) and he had to get them for 3 consecutive days. We found ourselves in the ER Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings for 3 sets of double injections. Our experience was great every time - which made me happy both as a mom and as a fellow pediatric employee at MUSC. Payton did great as well. By Sunday night he was not happy to be there because he knew what was ahead but he still did remarkably well.
Our scary weekend led to a quicker visit with the Pediatric ENT. We saw ENT on Wednesday February 10th. Basically, we are ready for tubes for Payton's ears. He does not need them urgently but if we wait too long he may get another infection and than we will be forced to get the tubes more quickly. We are almost certain that we will go ahead and schedule the surgery for the tubes in the near future and not risk the pain and fevers caused by the most recent round of ear infections.
For now, we seem to be ear infection free. Payton is once again a happy little boy without requiring a daily dose of antibiotics, Tylenol, Motrin, or ear drops!
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