Well, like I said, we MAY have the answer!! It didn’t seem to be ALL the answer though. Nicholas ended up sick again with 104 fever and a sore throat. I was out of town with Jared racing, and he was here with Jesse. Jesse’s first solo illness!!. He couldn’t get a hold of me in Nashville, but he did get a hold of Mom who was also in Nashville but not with me. She told him to stress dose him and take him to the pediatrician or the ER. Strep was negative and mono was negative. Poor thing is just now able to talk, and you know how hard that was on him!! He didn’t see his regular pediatrician that day, so his regular pediatrician wanted to see him two days later. We had talked on the phone, and she was thinking that this could possibly be just viral. We had ruled out everything else. He did start an antibiotic just in case, his third round in 5 weeks or so. In the meantime, between the two visits, his endocrinologist calls to let us know that his thyroid levels were pretty low that were drawn last week at St. Jude, so he wanted to increase that. We went to see his pediatrician on Tuesday. She ran another sodium level, potassium level, thyroid level, and mono antibodies test. Sodium was fine but the potassium and the thyroid were low which we knew they probably would be. He has started his new dose of the thyroid and since he is now actually able to eat some, maybe we can get the potassium up too. The other mono test will take a while longer but we suspect it to be negative. So…it looks like all of this could have been a virus in which he got dehydrated from and was put in the hospital and while there his sodium levels dropped probably either from of all the fluids or coincidence or whatever because they were fine in the ER. On our conversation with the endo in the hospital, he didn’t think Nicholas was on enough DDAVP which may have had nothing to do with the hospital stay. He got the ear infection in the hospital, took an antibiotic and got better. Went to school a few days and got sick again. Got better and went to school, and yep…got sick again with the 104 fever. So our thinking is that he was getting better and going to school and just picking up another virus. So the only logical thing to do with only two weeks of school left is to just take him out and home school him. Pick up the work and take it back when its done. That way he can get to feeling better and still go to school. He is still tired and taking a nap during the day and does not have a great appetite but it’s improving. I’ve been pretty stressed this past month. I don’t recommend stress as a form of weight loss. Seven pounds in the last five days can’t be good for you!!! I have however helped keep the Gatorade company afloat by living on it for five days! Only 29 days and counting before our cruise. The pediatrician says we have to get him better because we all need a vacation!!
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