Hand Foot and What?

Davis in the Hospital right before we were discharged!!! Poor little man!

So....We had a blast seeing everyone at Jackson's birthday party. It's been a while since I've seen all the babies together. Sunday we ran errands to get ready for the week. Monday everyone got up as usual....Davis was a little more 'snugly' than usual but I figure I will take what I can get these days. Well at just as the bell rang for school to begin, Davis' school was calling me to let me know he had a fever.I had no idea he felt bad when I took him to school...he seemed fine. So I cut out of school early and took him to the Doctor. Dr. Pope decided there was nothing physically wrong with him that he could 'see'. This meant that we needed to do blood work and the dreaded pee bag! Ugh! 2 hours later Davis never peed and Dr. Pope had to put a catheter in. After all that his pee came back clean....which is good for his kidney issue. Still he had a fever and no reason for it. He thought it was a virus or maybe something bacterial. He put Davis on an antibiotic and sent us on our way. Tues came around and he just kept getting worse and worse. When Wednesday came I just couldn't take it anymore so we went back to the doctor. He took one look in Davis' mouth and determined he had 'Hand Foot and Mouth'. It is apparently common and had begun making it's rounds in the community. To sum it up he had blisters all down the back of his throat, making it very painful to swallow. This explained to constant stream of saliva he had been dripping since Monday.

At this point Davis hadn't eaten since Monday and had no wet diapers since Tuesday morning. Wednesday night I called the on call doctor who was very concerned about Davis' hydration. He directed us to check into the ER. Long story short, we checked in and after many horrid nurses, and MANY attempts to locate a vein to start a bag of fluid, Davis was hooked up and beginning to receive much needed fluid. HOURS LATER, the doctor decided to admit us since Davis was still not drinking on his own and had no wet diapers still. Once we got up to the pediatric floor we were quarantined in our own wing....and even had a visit from an infectious disease doctor! Davis was beyond miserable. He had 6 bags of fluid by the end of our stay at the hospital. The good news is that this virus is like chicken pox, where you will only get it once. We got home Friday and all needed a nap! What a stressful week. Seeing Davis in so much pain was awful!