ivs and needles

well. saturday january 10th ethan woke up with a fever. we put a cold cloth on his head and gave him some tylenol. he laid in rachel's bed all day. he threw up in the afternoon, twice. sunday, he was feeling okay and wanted to get up and go. we had to make him lay down and relax. on monday... he was yucky again. had a fever and also started complaining of ankle pain. he went to work with me, he had no appetite still, and fever. tuesday he was feeling okay, so he went to school. when i picked him up from daycare, he was in so much pain, he was crying on the table. i felt so bad for him. on wednesday he woke with a fever and pain again. so i made an appointment for him to see his doctor. dr. saade was not in... so we saw dr. kelley. dr. kelley ran some tests. we went to downey regional medical center to take x-rays and some blood work. dr. kelley said he would call me with results. his SED levels in his blood are supposed to be under 30. and his were at 68. so, they had me take him down to long beach memorial. rachel and i took him down there and waited for a bed there until midnight. they put his iv in about 330a. thank goodness rachel was there, because she is much better than i am at that. he was admitted with possible osteomylitis, a bone infection. after all the tests were said and done, they said they were treating it as inflammatory arthritis. we were released late saturday night. it felt like a massive amount of time in the hospital... he was on motrin every 6 hours. so it was taking away his fever and his pain. his SED levels when we left the hospital were at 82. but the doctors said that it will take a little while for those to come down. rachel took ethan to his follow up appointment this past tuesday and all his levels have returned to normal, and he is doing just fine now. he had a serious birthday celebration in the hospital. it was a very kind place. we were all very happy with the hospital and the staff... it was a very nice place... thankful ethan was treated there... but dang, it was scary for a minute. but all is well!!! :)