As most of you know, Logan was hospitalized on Tuesday, July 6. Logan started getting sick on Tuesday, June 26 (fever…no other symptoms). I was in San Diego Tuesday and Wednesday of that week (work conference). Scott mentioned on Tuesday, June 26, that Logan was a little fussy. So, I asked him to check his temperature… 101. Scott gave him some medicine and Logan fell asleep (thinking his gums). On Wednesday, June 30, Logan didn’t run any fever. Therefore, we are definitely thinking it was his gums. I returned home on Wednesday night at 11:00 p.m., and I was very happy to see the two men in my life. I missed them both very much!!!
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Logan ran fever ranging from 100-101. We’ll Saturday morning (1:30 a.m.), Logan’s temperature reached 102.6. At this point, I’ve had enough and wanted answers from a doctor. So, we call the “nurse line”. We were told to bring Logan in on Sunday morning for a check-up. We get there and Dr. Schwartzenburg is there!!!!
Logan’s temperature is now 101…we do blood work and his white blood count shows “viral infection”. Remember… the only symptom is fever. Since it’s a viral infection, there is nothing we can do but let it run its course. Since we already had plans to go to Traci and Dean’s to celebrate the 4th, we decided to stick to our plans and head over to Traci’s. Pops wasn’t planning on swimming, so he stayed in the house with Logan. After all, the only thing he was doing was sleeping at this point. I went inside to check on him and he’s sitting on Pops watching TV. When I grabbed him to change his diaper, I noticed he was “on fire”. Keep in mind, his temperature was going up all day long! I already called the “nurse line” and discussed that the medicines and baths were not working. I was told if it got to 105 I needed to bring him to the ER. So, when I checked it around 3pm on July 4th his temperature read 104.6. We immediately stuck him in the shower with Scott while I grabbed some medicine and got our things together. I wasn’t waiting for the “official 105 reading”. It took us all of 30 minutes to arrive at Our Lady of the Lake Pediatric ER. I told them we just gave him Tylenol 30 minutes to arriving AND they still gave him Mortin to bring the fever down (now its reading 103). After SIX hours of test and waiting, we leave there with no new information. His blood work still showed he had a low white blood count (actually a little better). Therefore, we left with…it’s a viral infection.
It’s now Monday, July 5 and thankfully, I took the day off. Logan was still sick and running fever… 102 – 103 temps. At this point, we are waking him up to give him medicine in the middle of the night to keep his fever down. Since Monday was a “holiday”, we didn’t make our follow-up appointment with Dr. Schwartzenburg until Tuesday afternoon. Logan ran a temperature all night Monday night; however, when we woke up at 6 am his temperature read 98! Thank God, I can go to work and not “worry”. We still gave him medicine for the fever, because I didn’t want it to come back. We’ll at 9am and 12noon, he didn’t have fever. So, I tell mom not to give him anything since we were headed to the doctor soon. We needed to see if his fever came back. TWO hours later, mom calls and Logan has a fever of 104.1. Dr. Schwartzenburg is off, so we see Dr. Gelpi.
Dr. Gelpi checks Logan’s ears, throat, strep-throat and orders more blood work. You guessed it; everything is okay except his white blood count. I told Dr. Gelpi that my concern at this point was dehydration because all he was doing was sleeping, not drinking or eating. Dr. Gelpi said yes, I agree. SO… off to OLOL Children’s Hospital.
Here’s a list of Logan’s Doctor’s while we were at OLOL:
Clay Jones, M.D., received his Bachelor of Science and M.D. degrees from Louisiana State University. He completed his pediatric residency at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as an instructor in the Section of Neonatology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital for three years before joining the Section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital.
Steve Narang, M.D., serves as the Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Services at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and has practiced emergency medicine for 10 years. He received his Bachelor of Science and M.D. degrees from Northwestern University Medical School’s 7 year Honors Program in Medical Education in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Narang completed his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and is currently enrolled in the Harvard University Health Care Management Program. Dr. Narang serves as the Program Director of Our Lady of the Lake’s Pediatric Residency Program and as the Medical Director of Quality/Safety for the Children’s Hospital. He has presented his work on quality improvement at many national meetings sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Dr. Narang also serves as a member of the Executive Committee in the AAP’s Section for Hospital Medicine.
Jeff Deyo, M.D., Ph.D., received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas Medical School and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Deyo completed his pediatric residency and fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology through the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Deyo has dual appointments at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital in the St Jude Clinic.
Karen Renee Williams, MD, practices Pediatrics in Baton Rouge, LA with LSU Healthcare Network. Dr. Williams received her medical degree from Howard Univ Coll Of Med, Washington Dc. (infectious Disease Specialist)
After several blood test, three nights and four days in the hospital, here’s where we stand.
The Hematologist, Dr. Deyo, gave us Logan's results. His white blood count is up to the normal level, red blood cells are up and platelets are still a little low. He feels sure that it is Roseola, but the blood work will be able to confirm it (won't get it for a couple of weeks). Dr. Deyo did say that Logan's IgG blood count was low. An immunologist would have to research it (that's their "section" of the blood). Dr. Deyo thinks one section maybe low which would cause Logan to take longer to get better when he gets "some" viruses.
We asked about the "bone marrow issue", and Dr. Deyo said that was very low on his list now that his blood work is better.
LOGAN IS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL!!!! Logan taking a ride in the wagon to our vehicle.
Logan has a follow-up blood work/appointment with Dr. Schwartzenburg on Friday, July 16. We will be checking to see if Logan’s white and red blood cells have gotten higher as well as his platelets. If so, that would be just another identifier that it was Roseola. However, we should have the results from his HHV6 and HHV7 test in a couple of weeks.
The doctors and nurses at OLOL Children’s Hospital took very good care of Logan. Hopefully, you never have to use them, but if you do REMEMBER the names mentioned above.
Logan got home around 3pm on Friday, July 9. He slept for most of the day Friday and Saturday, but was back to his little self on Sunday. You hear that some kids “climb the wall”. Not Logan, he was climbing the window! We have three windows next to each other in our living room. Logan and I were playing in the living room.. I got distracted by the TV and Logan went to those windows. I watched him walk over there and he was banging on the window trying to get Scott’s attention. We’ll after a few seconds, I didn’t hear anything. I looked over there and he is STANDING on the windowsill. So yes, Logan is back to his little self. I was too busy trying to remove him from the windowsill…the last thing I wanted to do was make a trip back to the ER, so I didn’t get a picture. He was screaming to go outside, so we went. Here’s a picture of him heading towards the water pot. He saw Scott water the flowers, so he grabbed it later on and did the same thing.
Thanks for all the prayers while Logan was in the hospital. I KNOW it helped. Please continue to keep Logan on your prayer list until we get an answer as to WHAT this was.
Soooo happy he's feeling better. Poor thing was just so pitiful. I've told everyone how much I liked Dr. Deyo.
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