Hayden's First Hospital Visit

Last night was a rough, long night!

Around 230 in the afternoon, I noticed that Hayden was acting a little clingly and not acting like himself at all, his eyes were glossy and his cheeks were a bright red. When I picked him up I noticed that he was a little warm, so I put sesame street on, gave him his water, and forced him to relax, and I also gave him some Advil. When supper time came around, he seemed to be doing a little better, he ate a little bit of supper, not normal, he usually scarves his supper down. After his bath time, I noticed that his forehead was burning up, so we put him to bed hoping that he would sleep it off. Around 1030 at night, I heard moaning and groaning from his crib, so I went to go check on him, and he was HOT, and cheeks were rosier and his eyes did not look normal at all. So, we took his temperture again and this time it was 101.4 F, we then decided to go into the Emergency to see if the doctor could do something to get his fever down. I read in one of my baby books, that when a Baby gets a fever it is something you take serious, because if it gets too hight then the child can start having seizures and we were not going to risk that, we both had a gut feeling that we should go in. We went in around 11:00, and I am so glad that we did! We found out that Hayden has a throat infection, he gave us Tyelnol, and Antibotics.  But other then the throat infection, and the fever he was good to go! Now, the reason it was such a long night was because the doctor wanted us to wake him every 4 hours, to check his temperture and give him Tyelnol, he said doing this, should bring the fever down, and it did alot! Then he said he wanted to see Hayden again today, we have a doctors appointment at two today!

I am so thankful for doctors, nurses and our healthcare, yes sometimes there is issues with it, but at the same time I think we should be thankful that we live in Canada and we have a healthcare system, instead of living in a third world country where they do not have the supplies or the access to a doctor all the time. Today I have alot of reasons to be thankful.