Ezra's Hospitalization

Well, we started our year off with a BANG! : ) Ezra started getting sick right after the New Year. It started out on a Friday with a higher fever of 103 and continued through the weekend until Monday and went all the way up to 104.5. He threw up in the middle of the night Saturday and then not again until Monday on the way to the hospital. He didn't have much of an appetitte it didn't seem and if anyone that knows our little Ezra, the kid eats ALL DAY! So by the time he woke up that Monday morning (almost 11), he looked absolutely miserable. He just wanted to be held, still running a fever, refusing to drink or eat ANYTHING now, so after visiting with our pediatricians' office over the phone, they advised me to have him checked in the ER. So, Ezra and I left within minutes and went to the Pediatric ER. We were not there even 15 minutes and they had Ezra hooked up to fluid. He was so low. By late that afternoon, they told us we'd be getting admitted for further observance and by 9:00 PM we were finally in our room! It was an exhausting day! Ezra had a virus called Adenovirus. It's not uncommon apparently. They start with a high fever, then break out in a rash all over their body and get blisters inside their mouth! Ezra had every symptom there was! NO WONDER HE DIDN"T WANT TO EAT OR DRINK!!! At about midnight this first night, I hadn't left Ezra's side for one second, and I asked the nurse if she'd come into Ezra's room for just a few minutes while I ran to the bathroom (I hadn't gone in the entire 12 hours that I was there), and she said, "I don't have time to just stand in the room with him, so if you want to leave his door open, I can listen to see if he's crying then keep an eye out on him that way." So, I RAN to the bathroom (down the hall, mind you) and RAN back, was gone a max of about 5 minutes and he had RIPPED, and I do mean RIPPED his IV out of his hand! He was sitting in a pool of blood all around him! It was actually quite scary! I was so upset! We didn't sleep at all the first night, the second night we slept better. And then we were discharged too early! Our pediatrician was going to send us back for readmittance after following up with him the following day. He was not happy with our discharge! Ezra was still VERY sick and VERY dehydrated!!!! But, we managed to get by with drinking a whole cup of Gatorade before 5PM. He is all better now, just still a little bit of the rash coming out, but they said that was normal for about a month after.

Wrapping him in a "burrito" so they could get his IV in! :(

Took two people to hold him down! He was a fighter!!!

Doesn't he look awful!! This was waiting in the waiting room with IV hooked up.

Ezra peeking out the ER door BEGGING to go home!!!!

In our room! BIG IMPROVEMENT! What one bag of fluid won't do for a very sick and dehydrated little boy!

Here's the rash that broke out all over! Hard to see. Sorry.

Daddy came for a visit. They both fell asleep in the chair.

Playing "peek."

Aunt Shi Sha came up to the hospital to see him.

Opa came to see us too! Very sick little boy at this point!

Oma & Ezra

Cutie in his crib!!

NURSE Aunt Rachel! Ezra at this point was very unwilling to drink anything for me and we were headed to our third night of staying at the hospital. Aunt Rachel came to the rescue! She got him to drink and eat sherbet!!! THANKS, AUNT RACHEL!

Granny had JUST flown in from Iowa! He was happy to see her again. We had just seen her in October.