What's up with E?

As many of you probably saw on Facebook last night we ended up in the ER at Seattle Children's yesterday with Eli. Thanks for your prayers!  I wanted to give you all a better update so you won't be freaking out.

Well Eli started with a low grade fever at the end of last week that would come and go. He acted fine and when I asked him if he felt sick or if anything hurt, he'd reply "No, I feel fine" with a look of "you're crazy mom" on his face and continue playing. Well come Monday his fever got worse and he started acting like he didn't feel well and had some sniffles. I just figured he'd gotten a cold or the flu, and it would just run it's corse. Well after 3 days of higher fever and more miserable boy I thought that 6 days was a long time to have a fever, so I called the pediatrician last night and got him right in (I love that our pediatrician's office have weird hours and can generally squeeze kids in anytime!!).

The doctor that saw him didn't really know what to think and kind of, sort of,  thought he MIGHT have a disease called Kawasaki's disease. This is a disease that affects the heart and the blood vessels. Given Eli's heart history (which those of you who are unfamiliar can learn more about in this blog if you're interested!) she didn't want to take any chances. So she referred us down to Children's ER where his cardiology team is located.

Well after several tests last night, they concluded that he didn't have strep... And that's about it!  After they ruled out strep they took some blood and other samples and ran some labs. They are not sure that he has Kawasaki's disease as he only has 2 out of the 4 symptoms needed for diagnosis. But they did find out that his inflammation was quite high, so that was a bit concerning. The cardiology team still wants to do an Echo on him this morning to continue to rule out Kawasaki's disease. So we will do that later (when he wakes up, we didn't get to bed till midnight last night!!).

I will post more as I know more.  For now we are just chillin on the floor (we moved out of ER last night) until Eli's temp is gone without meds.   Prayers are appreciated that he kicks this thing fast and we can get out of this joint!!  Last night the boys did have fun watching Frozen, so that was special for them since we don't tend to watch movies on school nights!