What a Weekend!

Rachel was well enough to go to school for the 1/2 day on Wednesday and full day on Thursday. However, anytime you touched her lower back, she grimmaced pretty bad. She was very tender right around the kidney area. I put a call into the doctor but she didn't come into the office till 4 p.m. The nurse confirmed that the infection Rachel had should be wiped out by the antibiotic that she was on but left a note for the doctor. As soon as the doctor came in, she scheduled Rachel for a renal ultrasound. We were supposed to leave for Lake Ann Baptist Camp that evening but instead spent it at Spectrum Butterworth having this done. We were given the all clear for Rachel to travel though.

Instead of leaving Thursday evening, we left the house around 8 a.m. Friday and arrived at camp around 11 a.m. We travelled with another family from church and used the church van and trailor since we were there for the men to go to the Camp Captain's Retreat. As soon as we unloaded the trailer, the men and kids started on the leaves while the other mom and I organized our cabins. After lunch, we all worked on leaves for a while. They had these great leaf blowers! Besides several hand-held or backpack blowers they had these 3 lawn mower size blowers! They really worked neat and even I, with all my allergy problems, was able to use one without aggrevating my allergies. We were able to make these huge piles. I took Joshua back to the cabin for a nap for a while but every one else worked till dinner time.

Joshua had complained of a sore throat a little on Friday morning but he says that quite often and I didn't think too much of it. I did look in to see that there were no white spots or anything. By Saturday morning, Joshua was definitely worse. He sounded funny and was coughing as well as not eating much because of a sore throat. I wouldn't let him work on the leaves instead we stayed at the cabin most of the day. By nap time, he was obviously feverish even with having ibuprofen at lunch time. By 4, he was still napping but the sound of his breathing was getting bad. I called GR Peds and located a thermometer to check his temp. He was at 102.3 with only being 5 hours since his dose of ibuprofen. Our friends have a child with asthma and they had a nepulizer with them. We gave him a treatment of that and his breathing improved some. After talking to the nurse in GR, I loaded him into the church van and took him into TC to Munson Medical Center's Emergency room probably 20 miles away. (Mark stayed with the other kids at the camp.) TO BE CONTINUED...