1st Visit to the ER

On December 26th, 2012 - Emerson went to the Emergency Room!! I woke up around 11 pm and noticed that Emerson wasn't sounding right.  I took his temp and it was 102.5.  I called the hospital and they said to give him liquid Tylenol.  We still had some left over from when we had to give it to him when he was a couple days old.  So I gave it to him to see if it would knock the temp down.  It knocked it down to 101.5.  I called our pediatrician and he said given how young he is he recommmended bringing him to the ER.  So we got to the ER around 12:30 am.  The hospital checked us in fast and looked over Emerson pretty fast as well.  We sat in the waiting room for about a half hour and then they gave us a room in the ER.  We then waited 3 hours to see a doctor.  The doctor came in for 5 minutes and said "Ok we are going to swab him for the flu and give him a chest xray".  Then we waited another hour before those things.  Once the xray and swab was done.  We waited another hour for the results. Emerson ended up testing positive for the flu.  The lungs were clear which was a good thing.  It then took another hour for them to check us out of the ER.  My dad ended up having to come up to the hospital because Chuck had to go home to get ready for work.  We were at the emergency room from 12:30 am until 7:00 am!!! It was a crazy long night.  Everytime at the ER we got our little guy to sleep someone would come in and wake him up.  I thought that his schedule of sleeping was going to be all crazy, but turns out it went right back to normal the next day!!   

They ran out of boy gowns so he got a girl gown! Pink Elephants!!