Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Our medical mystery child

Kelton was running a 101 degree fever all day yesterday.
Brett took Kelton to the doctor's office and they took a sample of his blood and ran a test.
His white blood count was ok and he wasn't fighting an infection.
The doctor said he's too young to have contracted strep throat and that he should have an immunity to it through me.
We did find out that Kelton weighs a whopping 15 pounds 8 ounces! Our little chunk!

The doctors then told Brett they wanted him to go to the hospital's lab so that they could run a blood culture and take a urine sample.
On the way, they told Brett to stop by the pharmacy to pick up an antibiotic shot for them to give Kelton when they returned.
Brett went to the lab and the ladies couldn't find a vein to draw blood from, so he left.
He went back to the doctor's office and they gave Kelton the shot and some Pedialyte to drink. Kelton is with Brett at work today, still running the temperature, and we're waiting to see what the lab results say.
The doctors think it could be a urinary tract infection . . .
I guess we'll have to wait until the doctor's appointment at 3:00 to see what's going on.
Our little guy is sick, but they can't tell us what he's got!
He's our little medical mystery, for a day or so . . .

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