Hospital Hopping

At Thunder's suggestion, we have chosen the baby's blog name- Sunrise. Over the last several days, he has truly been trying to rise over some dark challenges.

Thursday morning I noticed that Sunrise had a fever after a long rough night of crying. He is about 3 weeks old now. Babies who are less than 2 months old are not supposed to have fevers, so we went to the Pediatrician. They looked at him, and told me not bother dressing him and to drive directly to American Fork hospital. Thursday and Friday he was on antibiotics, fluids and antiviral medications, but did not make much progress. On Thursday he was very irritable and did not want to be touched or moved. By Friday he was having trouble eating, was pretty lethargic and his sodium levels were low, so his pediatrician recommended that he be transferred by ambulance to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake. We followed the ambulance to the hospital.


Here is what Thunder said in an email to some family and friends: "Well its always interesting to get updates from the doctor. We had no idea how bad he was doing. The doctor said last night the attending team was "terrified", his sodium dropped dramatically and they had "grave concern". Clayton was white and yellow, very irritated. Steph slept the night with him and just said "I know they were concerned but had no idea why they were doing so many tests at that hour" (xrays 2am etc). Anyways, Clayton has regained his color, he is now eating. The doctor said she could only describe his recovery as "miraculous". They still want to run more tests today and keep him at least until tomorrow, but he is showing signs of being better. The doctor praised the doctors and AF hospital for making the call to have him transported here. They still do not know whats wrong with him. The doc did say his body was septic. She said it was like all of a sudden this morning his kidneys decided to work. Anyways, we are very happy he seems to be doing better and I guess a little scared we did not realize how bad he was. Having a doctor at Primary Children's who only see's the sickest of the sick to say they were terrified made us realize how bad he was. Though he's still got to show improvement, I absolutely know it has been by the prayers and faith of loved ones that is leading to his recovery. Again the doctor just said we didn't give him any other meds (he had been on a ton), "his body just decided to get better this morning, to go from where he was last night to where he is now it is miraculous."



Sunrise is not out of the woods yet, although he does look better. He got fussier as the day went on, so they are repeating some lab tests in the morning. This afternoon, they rushed him out for an x-ray to test for a necrotizing bowel disorder. Like all the other tests (except for his sodium levels), it came back negative. At this point they say that he has Viral Sepsis, which means that he has a viral infection that has gotten in his blood. He seems to go through phases of looking and eating better, and then not so good. As of now, he is not on any medication or fluids except for Tylenol, so we will see how he does all on his own. We like the doctors and nurses here, who are so on top of things and have been really kind and good about explaining things to us. Thank you for all your kind words and prayers, we really appreciate everything. We really feel the Lord is hearing our prayers.