Jacob is sick...

Today, amid all of the chaos around us over the Swine Flu, Jacob woke up late, had no interest in food or choo choo trains and in general just layed around. His fever started at 101 and then went to 103... I was very concerned. My little diesel was not up to par. The house was so quiet. Ethan tried to help as we just gave Jacob motrin and tried to help him rest. After lunch, when he still wouldn't eat and the fever was not coming down. I called our fabulous peditrician, and we got him in within the hour. ( We are so blessed with the most amazing Ped .. she's just amazing ). She ran some labs and Jacob did not have the Flu ( thank god ) and she swore it would be strep after she looked in his throat and saw how red it was. But, that came back negative as well. He and Ethan both just finished antibiotics for their ears and we know that those are one of the triggers for those horrible rash's he gets. We opted to not medicate at this time. We are going to treat as a fever virus and make sure he stays hydrated and takes motrin. If he worsens, I call her and even go to the ER if it is the weekend. Due to his kidney disease, we have to be very vigilant with fevers as they are one of the 1st signs that he may have an infection. Luckily, I have managed to keep him infection free thus far ( with alot of help from God )... Jacob is resting now and we all hope he is back to running all over as usual soon.

Taking the advice being given we will not be taking the children anywhere like malls, stores,playgrounds, etc for at least the next week. I am even considering not taking Ethan to speech as the therapist is in and out of several school districts... all of which are closing schools so rapidly it's hard to keep up. As you all know, I have spent enough time in Dr's office's already.

Chloe has a check up with the Ped next week and Jacob also has an appointment with the GI Dr to look for possible bacteria/lessions in the bowels... as a cause of the rash's.

Please say a prayer for our little guy. He doesn't get this sick often and it's so scary. Pray also that Chloe and Ethan don't get it as well.