Owen update....

I know most of you (family, anyway) know about what happened the last few days. But, for those of you who don't.... here's the rundown....

Last post was about Owen being ill. He got an antibiotic shot on Monday, but instead of getting better- he got worse. On Wednesday early afternoon I took him back to the dr. The dr said he was borderline dehydrated but if he would drink a small cup of water she would send him home. After much coaxing, he drank it. And home he went. A few hours later his fever went up to 106 and he was curled up in a ball crying/moaning that his belly hurt. We rushed to the ER where they did blood work, urine work, ultrasound, and x-rays and hooked him up to an IV for fluids. The blood work came back okay, except elevated white blood cell count. Urine came back fine. Ultrasound and x-rays were fine (except they couldn't see the appendix). At this time they admited him to the hospital, up on the children's floor (he finally got his bed at 7am Thursday so we spent all wednesday night in the ER).

Thursday he had a fever on and off all day, refused to eat or drink anything and was looking pretty bad. They had him hooked up to the IV for fluids since he wasn't taking anything by mouth.

These 2 pictures were taken Thursday.

On Friday we insisted on a CT scan to see the appendix. By the afternoon Owen was looking a little bit better and was starting to drink and eat a little. We unhooked the fluids on Friday afternoon, hoping he would start to feel thirsty and he would drink some. On Friday he drank 2 ounces total.

Here he is looking slightly better on Friday afternoon. At least he was out of his bed.

Friday evening the dr came to give us the results of the ct scan- no inflammed appendix, but there was free fluid surrounding it. At this time she said Owen was on an order to consume nothing by mouth.... except he was eating pizza at the time she was saying it. Oops! We asked the nurse prior to giving it to him and she said it was fine. Doh! So we waited for the surgeon....

The surgeon finally came up and took a look at him. Based on what he saw (a little guarding, but not much. Owen didn't scream in pain when dr touched his belly, he was walking around and eating, etc) he said no surgery that night unless things went downhill fast. He gave the ok for Owen to eat and drink (he had 11 ounces of water total on Friday) up until midnight and then nothing until they saw him in the morning. He gave the order for the nurses to check on Owen constantly during the night to make sure he didn't have any complications.

Fortunately Owen did great Friday night! On Saturday morning he woke up in a fairly good mood, wanted to eat and drink (he had to wait for the okay). The surgeons came in, looked at him, and said no surgery since he was acting so well. They couldn't explain what the free fluid is or why it's there, so that's a bit concerning. They did say that we need to be really careful and bring him back if he gets a fever, vomiting, or severe belly pain. But the doctors all agreed we could go home that day. After the okay to eat, Owen ate a bowl of cereal and a banana (and 1/2 cup of water). YAY!

Here he is Saturday late morning/early afternoon, reading me a story.

A SMILE! The first one in.... close to a week!

Tonight Owen decided he wanted to go see some fireworks. We packed him up and drove the 10ish minutes back to the hospital (we watch them from the parking garage). By the time we made it there, the little guy was passed out :(


I am hoping he wakes up tomorrow feeling better. He did eat quite a bit since he was home from the hospital, but the last hour or so he was awake he was acting a bit more out of it. Hopefully that was just because he was tired though.

But now I'll do the overprotective mom thing and overanalyze every little thing he does ;)

Update...

Last night Owen's fever kept rising higher and higher. By this morning it was over 104 and he was curled up in a ball moaning that his stomach hurt :( We called the dr and brought him in. They first thought it might be his appendix, but ruled that out. Then they thought kidney infection or bladder infection. After a quick pee in a cup (which Owen was NOT thrilled with and kept telling me "we don't pee in cups!!! We pee in POTTIES!!!") and the testing that goes with that, those were ruled out. He was only complaining of his stomach hurting and he had a fever. The dr checked his ears- both were fine (one tube is still in, one is out and just sitting in the canal). His glands on his neck were swollen, as were his tonsils (but he always has enlarged tonsils so it's hard to tell what's actually swollen). His throat was a little red but not horrible. She decided to do a strep test to rule that out before looking further. And the strep came back positive. I'm baffled on how his tummy could hurt and not his throat with strep but... who knew?

So, the question of the day was "how do we get medicine in him?". We had 2 choices- a 10 day course of antibiotics (3 times a day) but ALL of the antibiotics had to get in him. Or 1 dose of an antibiotic shot. Now, if I had a typical kid I'd have chosen the oral antibiotics, hands down. But Owen's my fun child ;) There's no way 30 doses of antibiotics was ever going to make it in his body. No. Way. The kid won't even take a dose of freaking tylenol. So, they called around looking for a pharmacy with the shot. They eventually found one, so I packed Owen up and went there to pick it up. Then back to the dr office to administer it. Needless to say- that was not fun. The poor pumpkin just kept screaming "THIS IS NOT FUNNY. THIS HURTS!" the whole time ;( Then we had to sit there for 30 minutes so they could observe him since the shot was a penicillin (and he's had a reaction to ammoxicillin).

After that we headed home. He ate a few bites of applesauce and a mini popsicle before falling asleep (around 1pm). Jason came home from work so I could go to work for a few hours at 2. By 4:00 Jason was calling me saying that Owen's temperature was 105.4 and that he wasn't moving (he hadn't woken up since he fell asleep at 1). So, I called the dr and talked to them and left work to run to the pharmacy to get him tylenol butt plugs. Ran home and gave him one. His temp went down a little, he did wake up for a few hours and ate a couple bites of food, but is now asleep again with his temp rising again. I'm sure it'll be a fun night....

Random things....

Tooth #2 came out this morning!

This was yesterday in the pool...

And a baby watermelon I found!!

Owen's ill.... again. Is this kid ever well for more than a couple days at a time??? 101.4 fever right now and complains of his tummy hurting. Who knows....

I found out on Friday that the daycare is going to close this next friday (the 3rd) for the holiday. YAY! We decided we were going to go somewhere for the weekend, since Jason's off work Friday too. We narrowed it down to Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, and one more that I can't remember. And the winner is...... St Louis! We're going to stay at the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotel. We plan on going to the Gateway Arch. They're going to have a fair/festival thing on Saturday with fireworks Friday and Saturday nights. Our hotel is only like 5 blocks away from this. On Saturday morning there's a parade we'll go to, which starts just 3 blocks from our hotel. We're also going to the Science Center. As part of the hotel package, we have tickets to either a polar bear/penguin exhibit or a t-rex exhibit. We'll also go to this movie at the Omnimax theatre (tickets also included in our hotel package). We're going to try to get to the zoo too :)

Garden pics :)

Hard to believe how fast everything is growing!

Jalapeno plant that, sadly, was not planted far enough away from the zucchini. It's covering the jalapeno who, now, gets no sunlight. I have to decide whether to leave the plant there and hope for the best or carefully dig it up and move it. Hmmm... decisions decisions. The tiny jalapeno you saw in the last set of pictures was eaten. Kinda. I went out one morning to check and it was fine. I took Owen out to play in the afternoon and half of it was eaten! But not really eaten... something had bit it and spit it out all over the garden. LOL! Whatever did that got a surprise ;)

Pumpkin plant

One of the green bell pepper plants

Purple bell pepper plant (which is finally getting some new growth! THERE'S HOPE!

Watermelon plant... that just took off the last week or two.

Green bell pepper!

baby zucchini!

a tiny Mr. Stripey tomato

tiny Early Girl tomatoes

big Early Girl tomatoes

tiny Roma tomatoes

lots of big Roma tomatoes

all the tomato plants

tiny cherry tomatoes

cherry tomato plant

lemon cucumber plant which has gotten a whole lot bigger since last week! It's just growing on up the stick :)

and the whole garden

Tooth Fairy

This is Owen's new "bed". He decided a few nights ago that he wanted to "camp" in his bedroom. He set it up with his sleeping bag, pillows, blankets, a flashlight and- of course- some trains :)

Discovering the Tooth Fairy came overnight...

I just have to laugh at "inflation".... the Tooth Fairy left $2, a new book, a new Handy Manny toy and a balloon. Whatever happened to 2 quarters?? LOL!

Big Smile!!

I've caught him all morning wiggling the other loose tooth. LOL! He's determined to lose that one too. Little does he know- the Tooth Fairy doesn't do that for all teeth ;)

Big news....

Owen lost his first tooth today! He was at daycare, had only been there for like 5 minutes, when his teacher walked him down to my room to show me his tooth was out! The stinker refused to eat all day (no breakfast, no lunch) so I sent a lunch with him at 2 when I had to go to work. He started eating it immediately and the tooth fell out. LOL!

Here he is with the little Tooth Fairy Pillow I made him tonight :)

Big smile! The tooth right next to it is also really loose and will probably fall out before the end of the week!

How does your garden grow?

Hehe... more garden pictures :) I love my little garden, though I'm a bit frustrated because there's been SO MUCH more bugs and disease in my garden then we ever dealt with in dad's garden. I don't know why and I don't know how to stop it, all I can do is deal with it as it comes. Anyway.... these were taken this morning.

The whole garden

pepper plant at the top, pumpkin plant under that, potatoes on the right

first green bell pepper!

watermelon plant that is FINALLY growing! It's been the same size for a loooong time.

Zucchini! Ready to be picked and made into dinner :)

The jalapeno.... which caught some sort of disease or something because it's turning black :(

Yellow squash. I don't know if it'll survive though. The plant caught powdery mildew and is dying.

Tiny Mr Stripey tomato

Romas

Early Girl tomatoes

All the tomatoes

Last week I decided that I was tired of that big brown area of the garden (where the onions and spinach were supposed to grow but didn't) so I bought 2 more plants for it.

Here's a cherry tomato plant (it has a couple tiny tomatoes on it but I forgot to take a picture of that)

And a lemon cucumber plant. Dad suggested it and I'd been looking all season for one. I finally found it last weekend! The plant wasn't looking too good last weekend but looks MUCH better now! Behind that you can see the carrots are still growing...