RSV... Again.

Last night Jake and I went out to Tulsa for dinner, and while we were gone Kade spent the night with Jake's parents. They called us this morning saying that Kade hadn't slept very well and was coughing quite a bit. We decided to go ahead and go to church, because Kade seemed to be feeling fine. While at church he started running a fever, so we left early. His fever was 102.6 and his cough wasn't getting any better. Since he had RSV last winter, we decided to go ahead and take him to the ER just to make sure it wasn't RSV. The cough sounded awfully familiar. We got to the ER at 6:30. After waiting an hour, they finally called us back to get Kade's vitals. His fever was 103.0 at this time. Since he had such a high fever they wouldn't send us to the fast track clinic. We had to wait in the ER. The doctor came in and listened to Kade's chest and called for chest x-rays. After the x-rays, a nurse came in to take a sample out of Kade's nose to test for RSV. His nose was so dry that when the nurse stuck the tube in there Kade's nose started bleeding, and he was scared to death. They barely got a sample, but we told them that would have to be good enough, because we weren't letting them do that to him again. So the sample came back showing he does have RSV. The doctor said we caught it early, so it's not that bad right now. He just barely had anything in his lungs, so that was very good. They gave us one medication to bring home and prescribed another. They also made Kade take a breathing treatment before we left, and we have to go back tomorrow to pick up the breathing treatment medication. I'm so thankful that we caught it early this time, and he is doing pretty good actually. As long as he isn't running fever, he is running around playing and seems as normal as can be.