hospital

Monday night Belle felt a little warm and we noticed that when we moved her to burp her she cried as if it hurt her head or something. I forgot to take her temp when I changed her diaper and since she didn't really seem to be feeling bad I just waited to take it until the next time she ate. 3am Tues morning it was 101.1-I looked in a book I had to see how high it needed to be before I should be worried and the book and the internet said that if a baby under 3 months (she'll be 6 weeks tomorow) had a fever over 100.4 you should call the Dr.
Lina and Evan had been sick for the past few days so I figured she probably just had whatever they had so I took off her blanket and re-took her temp an hour later and it was down to 100.3 and by (a decent hour of) morning it was 99.7 so I didn't think anything of it.


I happened to mention it to a friend of mine that is a nurse and she suggested that I let Belle's pediatrician know. I called and they said that I needed to bring her in so I made an apt. and while I was getting ready the nurse called back and told me that the Dr. said she wanted me to take her to the ER at Children's Hospital. I was a little annoyed b/c I thought they were going a little overboard, but I'm so glad I did!


After 5 hours in the ER of drawing blood, taking a urine sample and doing a spinal tap (which I did not stay in the room for) they found out that she had meningitis and needed to be admitted for at least 48 hours. Eventually the tests showed that she had/has enterovirus meningitis which really can't be treated but is much better than bacterial meningitis.


We had to stay until all the cultures testing for the bacterial came back negative (which they did). Unfortunately Evan had a job that he had only two days to get done (altho fortunately for hospital bills sake!) so he wasn't able to be there at all and Lina was sick so I didn't think she should be there so it was so nice to get home yesterday and see everyone (altho now Evan is gone on a youth retreat which I was also supposed to go on)


But we are so thankful that God took/is taking such good care of Belle and that it was not anything more serious-thank you to all of you that were praying, we really felt them! I know I would have totally lost if it hadn't been for everyone praying for us.


that was a long one...if you're still reading, here are some pics now...


Her bed reminded me of a circus parade cage:)

I don't know why, but I thought the 'isolation' bracelet was funny

It took them 3 tries to get her IV in-they ended up putting it in her foot/ankle

I don't know if she was really smiling or if it was just muscles twitching but she did it enough for me to have time to get the camera and try to get a pic (there wasn't much else entertainment there so there were quite a few:)