First ER Visit

My poor little guy is sick and I stayed home with him today. Early yesterday morning (around 2am), I took Jace to the emergency room. He's been running a low fever off and on since Sunday evening. Around 12:30am, I woke up to the sound of Jace breathing really loudly and a barking cough. I ran in his room to check on him and he was burning up. I stripped him down, his fever was 103.7, I gave him some Tylenol and put a cool washcloth on him. After almost an hour, he fever was only down to 103.3 and he sounded terrible so I decided to take him in. James stayed home with Avaree.

We got there and didn't have to wait long as soon as the RN in triage heard him. He could tell immediately he had croup. Once the doctor came in to see him, he quickly diagnosed him as having croup with stridor and an ear infection in his right ear. They gave us a dose of steroids (Decadron) to help with the inflammation in his throat and his first dose of an antibiotic (Amoxil) for his ears. He said there was nothing else they could do about the croup, just to keep the air he breathes cool and moist.
Other than the cough and breathing, he acted fine at the hospital. He smiled at the RN in triage and at the doctor when he walked in and he climbed all over the bed and wouldn't be still. We got home around 4am and Jace went right to bed.

He's feeling a little better, still running a low fever and his voice is hoarse. His coughing isn't that bad during the day, but it gets worse during the night. Hopefully he'll be back to normal soon!

Our Friday the 13th

Friday night we decided to go down to the Town Center to do a little shopping and take advantage of the tax free weekend. We stopped to fix Jace a bottle and then our shopping trip was cut short--Avaree jumped (or fell) off a bench and fell flat on her face. She cut her chin open on the bottom of a lamp post.

 I didn't see her chin at first, she was complaining about her knee that was a little skinned. I checked her mouth and the inside of her bottom lip was bleeding, then I saw her chin. It's a good thing it was where she couldn't see or she would have thought she was dying! It was bleeding pretty bad and was a pretty long cut, and about 1/4 inch wide. I could tell it wasn't deep but I knew we would have to go see about getting stitches so hopefully she wouldn't have a bad scar.

Right after it happened and I was wiping blood from her chin, a Fire & Rescue truck dropped a guy off at the Apple Store. As he came out (new iPhone in hand) and was waiting for his partners to pick him back up, we ran up to him and asked if he thought she might need stitches. He said they could probably use glue but it needed to be seen about. About that time, the truck stopped to pick him back up. The other 3 guys turned the lights on on the truck and got out. They were all really nice and put a band-aid on her chin. Avaree started freaking out because she didn't want to go to the hospital and she did NOT want stitches! She kept acting like she was fine and it wasn't bothering her. I guess she thought if she did that that we wouldn't take her to get it seen about.

We went in one more store and then headed to the emergency room. We called Gammy and she had to come see about her baby so she met us at the hospital. We got there and thankfully there were only 3 other kids ahead of us.

They took us back to our room and the doctor came in to take a look. She said she didn't need stitches since it was such a clean cut, and she would use glue to seal it back. Once Avaree heard that, she calmed down and was perfectly fine!

They numbed the area and irrigated it. Then the doctor applied the glue.

There's no bruising or anything and she acts like it doesn't bother her. The glue is starting to peel off so I'm hoping it is going to hold together.

I was hoping this little incident would keep her from acting like a monkey and running and jumping around, but unfortunately it hasn't. I don't know what it's going to take to make her learn her lesson!