It may not have been Seattle Grace Hospital but Carson made his Emergency Room debut at Clovis Community Hospital last night.
Carson had been running a fever of 102 degrees for a couple of days with no other symptoms. Yesterday, he woke up with a raspy voice and a little cough. Nothing I was real concerned with, but was keeping a close eye on. Last night after refusing to eat any dinner we put him to bed. We had a full house of men making draft picks for a fantasy football league. At about 9:30pm, Tom mentioned that Carson was upstairs crying. I went to check on him and noticed blood in his crib, on his shirt and all over his face! I carried him downstairs into the light and saw that the blood was coming from his mouth. He started coughing a real deep dry cough and with the blood coming from his mouth it appeared that he was coughing up blood.
We immediately drove him to the ER to have him checked out. We requested our very own, Derek Sheperd, aka: Dave Stone, and Carson was seen right away. The diagnosis was an upper respiratory infection along with croup. The blood was from the inside of his lip that he had been chewing on. Carson was given some Tylenol and some prednisone, (a steroid) to reduce the inflammation.
We were released and upon leaving the hospital, Carson proceeded to throw up all over me!! The staff observed him for a few more minutes and determined that it was just the prednisone that often makes kids nauseous. They gave him an anti-nausea pill and sent us once again on our way.
As of this morning, Carson is still feeling a little under the weather but doing fine.
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