The new doctor just came in and told us that the bloodwork and X-rays both look good.  He is going to talk to the ENT and find out what they want to do. At this point it looks unrelated to the surgery,  which is good.  It. Appears to be another one of Emmett's flare ups do to the Marshalls Syndrome (PFAPA or chronic fevers).  The problem,  besides the obvious,  is that we can't give him the Prednisone needed to break the flare up due to the fact that Prednisone can supress the immune system and he just had surgery. We are looking at another 10 days of this fever and all be can do is Tylenol and push fluids. This is going to make recovery much more complicated then it…

Emmett just had his IV placed and blood drawn. He is receiving IV fluids and morphine for the pain. They took X-rays because they are concerned about pneumonia due to aspiration. I'm not sure what his temperature is at the moment but he is really hot to the touch. I can barely keep my eyes open and Lizze is in a great deal of pain.. Emmett just fell asleep watching King of the Hill on NetFlix via his Android4Autism device.  We are waiting for the bloodwork and X-rays to come back. He's lethargic but it's early in the morning and he's recovering from surgery. Hopefully,  we'll have some answers soon.  

Well, Emmett spiked a fever late last night. About 2 or 3 am this morning it had reached 105.2°f. We got more tylenol on board and Emmett into a lukewarm bath. We all fell asleep on the couch watching King of the Hill on Netflix and were awoken around 5am by the return of his fever. We called Akron Children's Hospital and spoke to the doctor on call at his ENT's office. We were told to bring him in immediately....and so here we are. We got everyone dressed and dropped the 2 oldest off at my parents and rushed off to Akron.

Emmett spiked a fever this afternoon. The hospital told us that if his fevers exceed 101f we have to call. Since his fever was 103f, we called the hospital The plan is that if he still has a fever in the morning we will call back and they will call in an anti-biotic to address any possible infection. About an hour ago,  I checked on Emmett and he had spiked a fever of 105.2f. We got him in the bath tub and got some more tylenol in board. We don't know if this is PFAPA related or not. Hopefully, his fever will break and everything will be okay. I can't even see straight right now because I'm so tired - Lost and Tired Posted by Wordpress for Android via Tegra…

Oh yes he did.  Who did what,  you may ask?  Well,  Gavin spit on Elliott.  I don't know what brought that on and frankly,  I don't care.  We do not spit on people. That is completely unacceptable in the Lost and Tired house.  Before you ask,  no,  it wasn't like he was talking and accidentally spit a little bit.  This was actually spitting on his little brother. I'm not saying Elliott was innocent in all of this but he was the spittee and Gavin was the spitter.  Oatmeal was brought back out of retirement because I don't know what else to do in this case.  We don't hit our kids and very little works on Gavin outside of oatmeal.  For those of you wondering what the oatmeal thing is all…

We finally made it through the week.  No one got left behind or lost in the shuffle....and there was a whole lot of shuffling going on. We had to put many things on hold this week in order to survive but when surving is the priority,  and it is,  you do what you have to and fun deal with the fallout later on.  There is some fallout that I have to deal with but it could always be worse.  Although,  honestly,  I need to learn to stop saying that because I end up inviting trouble and we already have enough of that on any given day. Lizze is probably paying the biggest price for all of this week's activity.  She is in a great deal of pain and has battled…

I just want everyone to know that I'm way behind on my email right now.  I do my best to respond to everyone.  However,  this week has been exceptionally difficult for me with everything we have had going on.  Please be patient with me as I work to get caught up over the weekend.  If you don't hear back from me in the next day or so please shoot me a message and I get back to you.. Thank you for understanding.... - Lost and Tired Posted by Wordpress for Android via Tegra 2 powered Motorola Photon 4G (provided to me at no charge by Sprint) without the use of proper editing tools and disadvantages of a bastardized version of auto-correct. Please Vote for Lost and Tired (just click the…