Very sick baby!!

So I guess Preston had gotten some sort of sickness being around so many different people. The night before Amy's wedding Preston just cried and kept waking up. We didn't sleep pretty much at all from that night on. He had to sleep in bed with us. He was miserable and so were we. On Monday after we dropped Davin off at the airport we came back to my parents house and Preston finally spiked a fever, stopped eating, and his eyes got all gooey...yuck. It was time to take him to the urgent care. We found out that he had an ear infection in his right ear and an eye infection. The doctor prescribed an antibiotic for his ear, some drops for his eyes and a decongestant.

This picture is after we gave him a bath to help with the fever and clean off his eyes. My parents were so funny all concerned for Preston. My dad cleaned out the spray bottle and was spraying Preston with cool water while Preston was in the tub to try and help with his fever. I love my parents and was so glad that they were there to help me since Davin was gone!! After that we gave him his meds and hoped for a better tomorrow.

Preston loved rearranging my parents furniture!

Then Preston and I had to fly back to Utah Wednesday evening. I wanted a repeat of our flight to Michigan so i asked the lady at the gate if we could be by some empty seats for more room. The mean lady said that the flight was full and i told her that she needed to add Preston as a lap child to the flight log. After that I noticed that when i changed Preston's diaper in the airport bathroom I noticed that he had a bunch of spots all over his belly. strange.

When I got on the plane our seat was right next to a man and his 5 month old son. The flight attendant had him move because 2 lap children are not allowed to sit right next to each other and should never be sat next to each other. Apparently the mean gate lady must not have added Preston as my lap child. Also when the guy and his son had to move i noticed that no one replaced the man so we were right next to a free seat and when i looked forward there were 2 more empty seats....meaning that the mean gate lady lied about there being no empty seats on the plane. However all of her meanness did get us a free seat right next to us which wasn't so terrible ;-P

Preston fell asleep right before take off and slept for about 2 hours before i felt his forehead and noticed he felt like he was on fire!! Thankfully the flight attendants were just finishing up giving out drinks and snacks. I decided that once they were done i would ask for a thermometer. However after sitting there for a few minutes i decided to start taking off some of his clothes because he clearly had a temperature. I noticed that he wasn't really moving and i couldn't get him to wake up. I quickly walked to where the flight attendance were and asked for a thermometer. Once i got it under his arm it kept going up and up and up until it reached 103.9. At that point i just decided i couldn't wait to see how much higher it was going to go, I just knew i needed to take off all of his clothes and cool him down. A couple flight attendants filled bags of ice and put them on him. He still didn't move even with the ice on him for a couple minutes then he opened his eyes and started shaking. We gave him some Advil as well. One of the flight attendants called the captain and told him that there was a baby on board with a temperature over 103. Apparently the captain told her to turn on the air and blowers in the back because she made an announcement that there was a very sick baby and that they needed to turn on the air and blowers in the back to help him cool down. Shortly after that the flight attendant asked if I wanted her to ask if there were any nurses or doctors on board. I said yes because i was really freaked out about how Preston was acting and by his REALLY high fever. She made the announcement and at first a cardiac nurse came who said she didn't really know much about children or how to help. Shortly after that a young man came back looking like a dear in head lights. He said that he was an intern and proceeded to ask questions and examine Preston...very nervously. He concluded that Preston didn't have pneumonia and that all his vitals were stable. He just advised us to keep him drinking because he was dehydrated and to see our doctor right away in the morning. It took about 20 mins for his temperature to get under 100 and then he started eating and doing well enough for us to go back to our seats. The flight attendant made an announcement saying that the sick baby's temperature is under 100 and he is eating cheerios. It was super funny cause some people clapped. Preston screamed the whole descent to the ground. It was horrible cause nothing I did could soothe him. Needless to say when Davin picked us up and asked me how the flight was i bawled. Seriously though things like this never happen except in movies! It was crazy!

Obviously the next day we took Preston into our pediatrician. Our doctor said that both of Preston's ears had ear infections so bad that his ears almost ruptured....he said they were the worse he had ever seen!! I learned that the antibiotics the doctor in Michigan prescribed does nothing for ear infections and that the decongestant Preston had should not be given to children under 3....after i was told all of this i wondered if the urgent care doctor we went to even had a license to practice medicine. Needless to say we were given a strong antibiotic that is meant for ear infections and were told to come in again in 5 days to make sure his ears are improving. We also learned that Preston's spots that had now spread to his entire body were from a virus and would go away on their own. These are pictures of his spots. lol poor kid!

After five days we went in and his ears were improving but not as good as he wanted them too be and that his right ear was not getting better as quickly as his left ear was. The doctor had us keep Preston on the antibiotics a little longer. About a week after that it was Preston's hearing retest. His hearing wasn't terrible but definitely muffled because he still had a lot of fluid in his right ear. The ear, nose, throat doctor said that he didn't have an infection but that his ear wasn't draining fluid properly and that he recommended we put tubes in his ears to help them drain properly and hear more clearly. I also had the ENT check Preston's mouth and see if there was anything abnormal to explain his excessive drooling. The ENT informed me that Preston was tongue tied!! I was pretty mad because when the nurses checked him after he was born i was told that he wasn't tongue tied!! Anyways the ENT said that he could clip his tongue when he put in the tubes and get everything done at once. Although he couldn't guarantee that Preston would stop drooling he did say that it would help him speak more clearly (when he does start speaking) and help him to not choke so much on his food. We decided to go ahead with the surgery and scheduled it for January 7th 2010.