HSP...

Here we are again. In the hospital with Bode. Makes my heart hurt. This was the Friday before Christmas. Thursday he woke up kinda feeling yucky. I decided that since it was a half day at school he could stay home and come to my preschool party. By 10:00 he was taking a nap on our bed. That wasn't normal. He had a fever and was just not feeling well.  Later in the day he complained of being nauseas and having a belly ache. 

He woke up the next day feeling fine he just at little bumps on the back of his knee. He played at a friends house in the morning and I watched kids in the afternoon. Around 4 he came in saying his legs hurt. The rash that looked like bumps in the morning had spread and were flat and purpley red. My first thought was chicken pocks because we had a note home from the school a week or two before saying a few kids in his class had them. 

I called our doctors office and they recommended going to urgent care or the er. I chose the urgent care. While sitting at the urgent care Bode's joint pain worsened and they started to swell. The urgent care doctor told us to head to the er. She said she thought he had HSP but that tests needed to be ran before it was confirmed. 

It was a long wait at the er. Luckily Jeremiah was able to meet us there. He has a calming presence and we were both glad to have him there. We got a crappy nurse. If you work in a pediatric er shouldn't you have some kindness in your heart for children? She couldn't find a vein to draw blood and poked him 4 times before calling someone else to try. He was brave but its not fun to have someone fish around your arm with a needle telling you to stop crying. 

He got some good meds and tests confirmed HSP. Basically he has a virus. After his body fought off the virus it didn't stop and attacked him. It caused the rash, swelling and joint pain. Worst case scenario is kidney failure. He urine came back good that day and blood tests were great. We left there at about midnight with a tired boy and a prescription for the pain. Think arthritic joints. Poor boy. 

He was so hungry when we left. We all were. He really wanted nachos. But nothing was open. I remembered the Subway by our house is a 24 hour one. So we drove over there. Well apparently I missed the memo but it isn't open 24 hours anymore. Bode was all loopy from his meds and was mumbling in the back seat. I didn't catch all he said but I laugh out loud when I caught the words " it's all Obama's fault". Thankfully jack in the box was open and he settled of a burger. 

The rash has been pretty nasty but getting better. His joint pain is nearly gone. We went back in for a followup appointment and all the tests came back great. Such a relief. HSP is typically a childhood thing. It could come back but shouldn't have any long term effects. Just a rare fluke. Every doctor we saw pulled in a nurse or med student to see him because it isn't seen too often. 

He is good now. His feet hurt a bit but he is acting like him self. This kid! He sure knows how to much us worry.