Simon's Second Visit to CHEO

This has been a crazy week for our little guy. Thursday Simon had a fever which resulted in trip to the Pediatrician and the ER - Friday and Saturday he seemed back to his happy baby state however, Sunday was a whole different story. Simon woke up with a fever and it was off to the ER at CHEO again. Once we got there they took his temperature, which had spiked to 39.6 degrees, and they taped a urine bag on him. Of course, with Simon's tummy bug, getting a clean sample was a bit of a challenge. In the end, Matt ended up having to put a clean urine bag on Simon - definitely not something that you expect to be doing with no training. Initial results showed that Simon tested positive for a urinary tract infection and further testing confirmed it. Simon is now on a second batch of antibiotics (after vomiting most of the first batch) and will need to be seen next week for follow-up tests and possibly an ultrasound. If this round of antibiotics doesn't kill the infection, he will need to be hospitalized to receive antibiotics through IV so hopefully it won't come to that. The poor little guy is having a rough go of it - and it's been pretty tough on us too since he's been up a lot and inconsolable through part of the nights. I could really use some more sleep but it's a tough commodity to come by with all of the construction noise in the neighbourhood and my incredibly poor sleep skills.