Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lots of Stuff Going on.....

It seems like we have lived int the hospital and Dr. offices the last 3 weeks....
Dr. offices for the first week because of unexplained fever, never did get an answer as to why he had a fever, followed by a seizure on Sunday night after his fever broke Sunday morning. Got flown to Arkansas Children's Hospital by Med Flight on Monday, and Spent 4 days running tests on him. He was diagnosed with Encephalitis, or inflimation of the brain. The virus he had apparently spread to his brain and that is probably what caused his seizure. I can't tell you how scared I was when my baby stopped breathing in my arms. Even though it wasn't long, it felt like hours before he started breathing again.

So since we thought he was better, we came home this last sunday, 6 days ago, and he was fine, thought he was finally over it. Wednesday morning I heard Korbyn over his monitor wining, so I went to look at him in his room, and he was sleeping, so I left him alone, and went back to bed. He kept wining so I told Curtis I should probably go get him. When I did he was scalding hot. And later in the day I checked his temperature rectally and it was 103.5, so I called his pediatrician and took him in. Since his blood count was 28.6 thousand they told us to go admit him to Driscoll Children's Hospital here in town (the only children's hospital in town). So for the 2nd time...we are back in the hospital. Another spinal tap (lumbar puncture), IV that took them 45 minutes and 3 different nurses to put in ( I was so mad that they kept poking him, without getting a sucessful IV in him). He was screaming so hard he almost made himself throw up. I am surprised I held it together..I wanted to cry for him. They took alot of blood cultures, we still don't have an answer as to what was going on. We were discharged Friday. We go to his pediatrician tomorrow, they are supposed to have our results. So we'll see. For now, he is back to himself. Very cranky though, but I believe it is because he is about to get a TOOTH...HIS FIRST TOOTH! Crazy though, it's on top, and not the middle one on top, it is the top tooth to the left side of his center teeth.

On a brighter note, Korbyn got his first haircut on March 31st! He felt like such a big boy! He did so good too! Until the stylist got the clippers and started using them close to his ears, then he freaked! HA! So you can imagine when she busted out the blow dryer to blow off the loose hair, he freaked again. It looks so adorable. Now his hair isn't in his eyes and hopefully he will stop being called a girl.

2 comments:

  1. Brittany, I hope Korbyn's doing better...I'll give ya a text tomorrow to check in with you again...I haven't bugged you the past two days since you got outta Driscoll cuz I wanted to give y'all time to catch up on sleep and what not.
    HOpe you're all doing well!
    Love you!
    Amber

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  2. Hey! Hope things are going better for Korbyn!! It's scary when the lil' ones get sick. You've all been through so much recently, wish we could do something for you. Thanks for keeping us in the loop with the updates.. I know you have so much going on. Everyone sends prayers & wishes for Korbyn to get well soon! Thinking of you often and sending our love, hugs and kisses to all!

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