Luca had his first trip to the emergency room on Friday night. I came home and he just seemed out of it and daycare had told Amauri he was really really fussy all day. His eyes were really glossy and I finally took his temp after dinner and it was 101.9. This isn't really high for an infant but because of his kidney condition the doctor had told us if he ever reached 101 to get him to a hospital asap. So packed him in the car and drove him to the ER. After getting checked by the nurses and stripped down to cool off, we got put in a room and waited for the doctor. He didn't think Luca had anything wrong (basically the worry is a urinary tract infection) but he was going to test his urine to be safe.
My poor little baby had a catheter put up his you-know-what in order to get the urine sample. The nurse was learning and so it took like 4 minutes! I have never seen Luca so red in the face and upset. I almost started crying with him. Turns out he didn't actually have an infection but has many clumps of white blood cells which I guess is not good. So the doctor is treating it aggressively like an infection. Luca got a shot of antibiotics there and will be on them for the next 14 days.
His fever finally stopped yesterday and has been relatively ok since then. We have his 5 month appointment on Wednesday so will update you all again then. And I promise to put some photos up sometime this year.
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