Emergency Room- Part 3, THE ENDING

Well, I realize that I have left some people on the edge of their seat with my story, sorry to keep you worrying! It was such a long story, and with a baby, everything in my life is done in parts-- so this story, like the laundry and cleaning the house these days-- had to come in parts. Here is part 3-- and the ending. So we arrive at the ER with screaming baby. The nurse takes CHandler's temperature, and it is well over 100. I dont know the exact degrees because they apparently measure it in celcius, which I am not smart enough to convert. This fever immediately invites uproar all over the ER. After an incompetent resident takes a look at him (that is another story all in itself-- maybe there WILL be a part 4??!!?) they rush him to x-ray, where they place him in a plastic "torture" tube with his hands above his head-- horrific incident #1. X-rays turn out normal. Horrific incident # 2-- place a catheter into my babie's p.p. to draw urine-- shows elevated white blood cell count, possible urinary tract infection, leads to horrific incident #3-- attempting to draw blood- after attempting in both arms and both legs TWICE-- yes that equals 8 times-- I was almost escorted out of Childrens hospital! I was LIVID with the nurse! Blood work comes back negative, cant figure out source of infection-- leading to the forth and MOST HORRIFIC procedure of all-- a spinal tap. YES-- a spinal tap, which was apparently necessary to rule out meningitis. They did the spinal tap, (which they did not let me stay in the room for, probably because of my obvious disdane for the nurse after blood draw). Results were negative for any type of meningitis, THANK GOD!! At 4am they admit us to the hospital for further observation, because ALL of the torture- I mean tests, that they did on Chandler came back negative. He woke up the next morning in his hospital crib, as happy as a clam, smiling and flirting with the nurses and doctors, laughing and playing, as if he had no recollection of the torture chamber x-ray, or the multiple bodily fluids that were taken from him just hours before. Final results, Chandler had some kind of viral infection in his stomach, which resulted in diarrhea diapers, but an extremely happy baby the rest of the weekend. So basically he had to go through a night of hell on earth to tell us that he had a stomach virus. Needless to say, Jeff and I are will be a little gun shy when it comes to taking our baby to the ER again. But, thank God for a healthy baby, and thank God for a good doctors.