Caden has been battling fever for most of this week and congestion caused by a sinus infection has been lingering for what seems like months. This weekend Caden popped a 104.5 fever. The fever in itself is not normally a cause for alarm, but Caden had been on a full does of Augmentin since Wednesday and had been on a prophylactic does of the same for months. The spiked fever happened at a very uncharacteristic time of the day for Caden to have a full (not low grade) fever. I called the pediatrician and he recommended that Caden be seen to make sure he had not aspirated any of the congestion and developed pneumonia. I took Caden down to the MUSC ER and confirmed that Caden did not have any fluid in his lungs. They called this an ongoing sinus infection and gave him a rocephin injection. They also prescribed Vantin to start 24 hours after the injection. We started that tonight.
Tonight Caden is noticably doing better than he has in the past week. Last night was a very long night as Sherry and I took shifts sleeping in the same room with Caden to be able to responded to his need to be suctioned. Tonight is lookin up already.
Both our other boys are also on antibiotics for sinus junk. Sherry and I have been treated for the same in recent weeks. While the sinus infections are particularly problematic for Caden, they have been taking a toll on the entire family.
Thanks for your prayer and support. Please keep all our little boys in your prayers.