Where to start. So much has happened that i havent had time to keep up with this dern blog, but now i am back and will keep up as I can. Let me back up to when Jake was 8 days old he started running a low grade temp. I didnt think much of it right then. The next day he was still running a low grade temp but a lil higher now it was going between 99.6-100.3, so i decided to call his pedi. I made him an appt for that day. We went in and they checked him over at that point still had a fever. She couldnt find anything else wrong with him and decided she wanted him admitted to the hospital for testing to make sure he didnt have a bacterial infection. So Jake was admitted and they did a spinal tap on him poor baby i felt so bad, and also did a blood culture on him. They started him on antibiotics just incase he had a bacterial infection. Well the spinal tap came back ok and the blood culture never grew anything so we were released 3 days later. He was still running a temp, but pedi said it was probably a viral infection and had to run its course.
A couple days later i noticed Jake's arms and legs going limp quite a bit every day, but once again didnt think nothing of it thinking it was just a sleepy newborn thing, even though i didnt remeber my other 4 doing that. He seemed fine so we went about our day each time. Well he continued to do this and so i asked a few people including and RN at my school and they all said it could be seizures. So of course i freaked and called the pedi right away and they had me take him to a walk in clinic cause they had no appts left. So we went there and they evaluated him and call our pedi and sent us there. So we go to our pedi and she evaluates him and said she also thinks he is having seizures and once again we are amitted to the hospital for testing, mind you he is still running a fever from the first time. So we get the hospital and the do an EEG on him. We are there for 3 days. He ran fever the whole time we were there every time they took his vitals he had a temp. The rn said they could be linked to the seizures if he is having seizures. It took over a week to get the EEG results back. We just got them back Monday and they came back showing several abnomalities. So now we have an appt with a neurologist on the 27th. My lil man has already gone through so much and is only 5 weeks old. I am a nervous wreck cause I dont even know whats wrong with him and it may take months to find out. I doubt i will find much out when we go see the neuro in 2 weeks. Of course i have been doing reading online and i need to stop that cause it just makes me worry worse. Anyway i will try to keep everyone updated on Jake through here. I must go now and finish dinner for my other kiddos.
A couple days later i noticed Jake's arms and legs going limp quite a bit every day, but once again didnt think nothing of it thinking it was just a sleepy newborn thing, even though i didnt remeber my other 4 doing that. He seemed fine so we went about our day each time. Well he continued to do this and so i asked a few people including and RN at my school and they all said it could be seizures. So of course i freaked and called the pedi right away and they had me take him to a walk in clinic cause they had no appts left. So we went there and they evaluated him and call our pedi and sent us there. So we go to our pedi and she evaluates him and said she also thinks he is having seizures and once again we are amitted to the hospital for testing, mind you he is still running a fever from the first time. So we get the hospital and the do an EEG on him. We are there for 3 days. He ran fever the whole time we were there every time they took his vitals he had a temp. The rn said they could be linked to the seizures if he is having seizures. It took over a week to get the EEG results back. We just got them back Monday and they came back showing several abnomalities. So now we have an appt with a neurologist on the 27th. My lil man has already gone through so much and is only 5 weeks old. I am a nervous wreck cause I dont even know whats wrong with him and it may take months to find out. I doubt i will find much out when we go see the neuro in 2 weeks. Of course i have been doing reading online and i need to stop that cause it just makes me worry worse. Anyway i will try to keep everyone updated on Jake through here. I must go now and finish dinner for my other kiddos.
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