Happy Valentines Day

Aiden received a few valentines cards from his friends at daycare. He also made Daddy and Mommy a great valentines day gift with teacher's help. It was a framed picture of him with magnets. He also had some delicious candies too!

1. Valentines gift for Daddy and Mommy


2. "Cupid" eating chocolate candy

Health Update for Aiden

After taking two doses of Amox and tamiflu on Friday, finally Aiden was fever free for the weekend. Yay!!! His appetite is still not really good, but he does eat about half amount of food that he usually eats. He is drinking tons of fluid which is pretty good. He still has some wet and barking cough, but the cough is definitely better at night than last week. He can finally have some good sleep. His nose is still running quite a bit, but it is not really big deal compared to the scary fever he had for two days straight. He is back to daycare today on valentines day and I have sent some v-day cards with him to his teachers and classmates. I think he will be asked to be a mail man and put those cards to his classmates' mailbox. It would be fun for him. Here are some pictures I took on my cell phone while Aiden was observed in ER room and he was in peach color hospital gown. :P

1. Looking cute in peach color hospital gown despite sickness


2. Keep warm in hospital blanket

Happy Birthday - Mom

I had my birthday cake a few days before my actual b-day because Matt was out of town on my birthday and unfortunately Aiden was really sick on my b-day too! So it was actually nice to have my cake a few days earlier. Aiden loved to cut Mommy's cake with some help. :)

Urgent care -- > ER

After a couple of days high fever, on Thursday, Aiden's fever still sky high. At one point, it was 105 in the ear. When I got home last night, he was lying in my Mom's arm and wouldn't even open his eyes. When he saw me, he only rolled his eyes a little bit and said "mama". So we took him to urgent care but waited for 2 hours to see the doctor because there were quite a few kids in front of us. When we got in, the doctor listened to his lung and heard noise on the left side and checked his oxygen level on the finger. He was only 93% so we were sent to ER. We got into the ER exam room right away and his oxygen level was back to 98% without treatment. We waited for another 1.5 hours to finally get doctor in around 11pm. And she also heard noise from left lung. Then we were sent to have x-ray. Aiden was absolutely terrified by big x-ray machine. After about 20 minutes fighting, they finally got some clear pictures. Then we waited for another half hour and get the results. His lung looked clear! But doctor in ER still treated him for both bacterial pneumonia and virus pneumonia. So we were prescribed amox and tamiflu. We were finally discharged by hospital when his oxygen level was 96% (the lowest level for discharge). I picked up his med and got both in him at 2AM. This morning, he is still having fever around 101.2, but in much better spirit. He still isn't eating much but he has been drinking quite a bit fluid which will keep him dehydrated. We were told to watch him for labored breath (especially to watch whether his ribs get sucked in during breathing) and dehydration over the weekend. If any signs happen, then we will need to bring him back to ER. If not but still has fever on Monday, then bring him back to his PED office. We'll have to wait and see if both amox and tamiflu will do good for him. Keep finger crossed!!

Scary Fever

Aiden was perfectly fine when I dropped him off at daycare on Monday morning, but he started running nose along with a little coughing when I picked him up that evening. Then starting on Tuesday noon, he registered 103.9 temp in the ear, had motrin and the temp was manageable on Tuesday. Then yesterday, he started fever around noon but was around 102.9 and had motrin again. By around 4PM, his temp went up to 104.3 and he was really clingy. Another higher dose motrin as suggested by the pediatrician was given around 7:20 last night and half hour later, the temp was 104.4. I got really scared and called the oncall doctor and was told to alternate between 100mg motrin and 160 mg tylenol. Around midnight, he woke up by coughing and wanted water. I checked his temp, it was 102.2 again and I gave him tylenol. Then he woke up around 4:20 this morning crying. I took him to the big bed with me and checked the temp again and it registered 100.9. But he was really breathing heavily due to all the congestion. Then he woke up again around 6am and checked the temp, it was around 102, Motrin was given again and finally his temp went down to 99.7. Will have to see how he does today. I was told to bring him back in if he still has fever on Friday which follows 3 days rule. But surely the high temp scares me!! What a restless night for Aiden and me!!!

"Good Way" to start February

We have a pretty "good" start of February. Since the 1st day, we got big windy ice storm and the road was packed with 1" ice, and on top that, we got another 6 inches snow. Today the sun finally come out but it is freezing cold. It was -3 degree with wind chill. Aiden's daycare was closed for the last two days due to bad weather. But he did get out of the house on Wednesday after the snow finally stopped, it was so icy and he kept falling onto ground while walking. He was definitely curious about why he can't walk without falling. :))