Hospital stay

It seems like every summer we have to have at least one hospital stay.  In June the boys wanted to have a sleep over at grandma Emily's.  Lukie really wanted to stay, and I was tempted to let him.  But its a good thing he didn't!  He started to feel yucky when we were about to leave my mom's house.  Mike and I came home and put him in bed.  Less than an hour later he woke up crying.  I went to check on him, he said he was cold and had goose bumps.  I checked his temp and sure enough he had a fever of 102.  Which automatically means a hospital admit.  So we packed the hospital bag and headed to the ER.  The ER was crazy busy, it was a long long night in the tiny ER room.  In the morning we were admitted to the pediatric floor. But one good thing came from our horrible experience.  We are now on a direct admit last.  so I can call the hospitalist on call and get a direct admit to the floor and skip the ER.
Within only a few hours cultures grew positive for E.Coli in his central line and also throughout his blood stream.  Poor Lukie was miserable.  He was on Motrin and Tylenol and still had a fever of 104.  We had some scary moments when he would not respond to us and his eyes would roll in the back of his head.  He was also hallucinating and having vertigo.  He body was not responding to the medication.  Finally with ice packs his fever came down a little.  Lukie was not him self for a couple of days until his buddy Evie came to visit.  Evie was the best medicine for him!  As soon as she came he wanted to get out of his bed and go to the play room.  The doctors and nurses asked if Evie could stay beacuse they hadn't seen him have any energy at all in days!  After 5 days in the hospital we were able to come home on IV antibiotics.

Friends are the best medicine:)

Luke getting even with his fav nurse Dennis for poking him!

 Bishop Brodrick and his sweet wife Miriam came to visit and play playdough.

Thanks for visiting!!!

 Lukie getting an Echo test.  The doctors thought he may have a blood clot or heparin allergy because is platelets were very very low.  It turned out that it was just caused form the infection.

 The bothers came to visit and found some giant snails in the flower beds.  Lukie got a hall pass to go find snails!  eeeewwww!  His ID doctor wasnt too happy;)

 Luke and one of the hospitalists Kawehi Au

 Poor little guy had a horrible time trying to get an IV in the ER.

We found Lukie's ceiling tile that he painted last year hanging in room 446  

 Lukie was so happy to see his brothers, especially Kaleb

 Lukie and Dr. O his ID doctor

Luke loved to ride around and around the halls!

 Getting ready to go home!!!

 Playing catch with Dr O.  The staff is so good to Lukie.  They truly have become our friends. 

 My super hero!