Cali May is sick

This a disclaimer for all the Grandmas and Aunties that are going to read this. Cali May is doing fine and will continue to do fine. She is being her normal sweet and loving self and is enjoying being 8 months old today! That being said here is what has happened over the last three days.

Saturday: Cali was cranky and fussy which we attributed to her teething, gave her some motrin because of a low grade fever and she went down for her normal nap. When Jeremy got her up for her nap at 6:45 she was burning up. I took her temp. the baby way and she had a temp of 104.3, I of course went into mommy panic mode and dressed her and we were on our way to the ER. After every poke and prod in the ER we were sent home thinking that she had a weird virus and that the prescription antibiotic would do the trick.

Sunday: Cali woke up at her normal time and had a very normal day. Around 3pm the ER called and asked us to return to the ER. The blood that they had drawn from Cali May was growing a bacteria and they wanted another sample. After this visit they decided to keep her for observation overnight to check her white blood cell count. Well when we got to the pediatric floor the pediatrician didn't like the preliminaries and decided to go ahead and do a spinal tap. We went to sleep thinking we were in the clear because the fluid came out clear.

Monday: Cali May has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. Which is an awful scary sounding disease. she has the most mild case that you can have and still have it. They gave us the example that typically children that are brought to the ER with this are very ill and dangerously so. The bad cases normally have 1000's of- white blood cells in their spinal fluid sample, Cali had 32, yes you read that correctly thirty-two. She has been on strong anti-biotics since Saturday and is responding very well to the treatment.

From here.... We will be here at least until Tuesday afternoon after they put in a pic-line so that she can receive IV antibiotics at home for the next 21 days to be sure that the bacteria is gone from her system.

We thank God and our doctors that she was seen on Saturday and that they took quick action with her to get her treatment started and onto recovery!!!!

Love,

Kimberly, Jeremy, and Cali May