temps.

Things with Sol had been quiet the last few weeks, up until last weekend that is. Until then, he had a runny nose one week but recovered from that with no issues, then he was sick free for a week until last weekend he came down with a fever. I wasn't too surprised as May had a fever for a day the previous weekend, I assumed he would have the fever the same amount of time and then be over it. He was heading towards day 3 with a fever so that day I ended up giving him some Tylenol before bed time. While we were doing his last feed of the night, I noticed his fever had broke and he soaked his clothes. I changed him out of all his clothes and got him nice and dry, then finished his feed. I took his temp again before I went to bed because he was due for some more tylenol and I wasn't sure if he needed it or not. When I took his temp, though, I ended up getting 93.8, I took it a few more times to make sure I was doing it right but I kept getting the same numbers. I decided to take it rectally so I knew exactly where he was and then I still only got 94.8. I, of course, started googling and reading how bad it was to have such a low temp. I decided I would just keep checking it for awhile to see if he was bouncing his temp around or something. at around 1am, and me not getting any good temps, I called the hospital and ended up being able to talk to his pulmonary doctor who had been on call. She told me if he was really that low his heart rate should be getting pretty low too. His heart rate was lower than normal though, he has started this new thing where he stays in the 80s or 70s while he is asleep now, and even dip to the mid 50s now. At the time I was on the phone with her he hadnt dipped into the 50s, so we decided to give it one more hour, bundle him up more, and take the temp again. So I stopped worrying and closed my eyes for an hour where after I went back to check on him and at this point he was so super cold to the touch and a temp of 91.8. I pulled him out of the crib and laid him on me with a blanket over us, trying to warm him up. Thiago checked his bed out, because my thought was that he may be laying in something wet that made him so cold. Sure enough his bed was soaked again and was super cold. I called back to the hospital and we agreed he needed to be seen. After we spent 2 hours holding him trying to warm him up, we packed the car and went to Neenah to the ER.
On the way we bundled him and blasted the heat as high as we could take, by the time we got to the hospital and got him into the ER room, he was already at 97. We decided to run some tests and keep an eye on him for a few hours. All the tests came back normal, the only thing being off was his ear that had a little inflammation going on. They treated it as swimmers ear and after talking to the Madison crew, we were able to go back home, before we left he was already at 98.
Luckily my parents had planned to come watch the kids anyways and met us at the hospital and then came home with us, allowing me and Thiago to get some rest. I had only slept the one hour that night as it was and I could hardly keep my eyes open anymore. We spent the rest of the day monitoring his temps, and at night time too I kept an eye on them. But my thermometer kept getting weird readings off and on, I finally decided to go buy a new one a couple of days after me getting weird reads. After buying the new one, we haven't had those low reading temps again so maybe it was just the thermometers all a long, who knows. I was just baffled with having to deal with this when you are never told what to do if a child has a low temp. Of course I only think of worst case scenarios the whole time, which makes me sick to my stomach.
The last few days have been going better, except now he is keeping a lower hear rate overall and when he sleeps he is setting the alarms off because he goes into the 50s. It looks like we may need to do a sleep study on him and see what is going on. 
I guess I left my self to be vulnerable to sicknesses, because come Wednesday I came down with a really crappy sinus cold. I am Sooo hoping this is what sol had those couple of weeks ago and that I don't share this new one with the kids. It has been taking a toll out on me, I can't even imagine what it would do to Sol!

Some days, some moments, it is just so extremely hard to have a medically fragile kid. I wish so badly he didn't have to deal with so many things so often...