Henry Update

I had to take Henry to the ER on Sunday. He had been running a fever of 103 for more than a day, and all of his symptoms pointed towards a UTI, like the one he had over a year ago. 

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Henry was born with some of his internal plumbing out of order. He has extra compartments in his kidneys, and extra tubing as well. A little more than a year ago, he had surgery to reconstruct what was all wonky on his insides. The surgery went super, and things were looking good, and Henry has been doing awesome for this last year -- no signs of troubles at all. 

I knew that what was going on with Henry was more than just a flu or other sickness, and I knew he needed help to heal. It was Saturday night/Sunday in the middle of the night, that he really started burning up, and I was eager to get him to the hospital. I did not want to leave in the night, and leave my other children home alone. It was about 3:00am. Sure, I could have called friends, and I would have if I thought it was life-threatening. I gave him some Tylenol, he was able to sleep, and we held out until about 6:30am and rushed off to the ER. 

While in the ER, they pumped him full of antibiotics, and he has been taking medicine daily since then. The first few days following, he was still spiking a really high fever, and he was acting really tired. I went to our family doctor and found out that was quite normal, as the infection was running its course and the antibiotics fought against it. It concerned me because his fever actually went higher to over 104. 

As of today, Henry is doing much better. He still sleeps a little extra in the morning, and so do I, because we had some nights of zero sleep. He is playing and acting normal, and all is well with him. At least it sure seems that way. We will find out more on his internal issues, but externally he is doing so much better. 

We have a follow-up appointment with his urologist next week, to see what might have been the cause of the UTI. He has a scheduled ultrasound in a few weeks to see how things are looking on his insides. The surgery was meant to make it so he would be fine into the future. Hopefully things are all in order as they should be. We will find out soon.

Life is never boring. That is for sure.