Post-RE Update & Sick Boy

Noah is sick.

Apparently, there’s something going around his day care classroom, and he was feverish and listless yesterday afternoon. Not that they called us or anything. You know, so we could see a doctor yesterday, or give him some medicine to help him feel better. Or maybe to avoid getting more kids sick.

By 6:30 pm, his temp was somewhere around 104. (A hair above, by the ear thermometer; followup with the more invasive thermometer showed a hair below.) He wouldn’t eat anything, not even a cookie, although he did suck down watery apple juice like a champ.

The on call pediatrician advised alternating tylenol & motrin, which seemed to help, but he still had a rough night. Strangely, I think Noah is dreaming about apples. He just said “apple” about 6 times, and is now sleeping quietly again.

We’ll see what the doctors say in real life later this morning.

Speaking of doctors, we had the second opinion Reproductive Endocrinologist appointment yesterday. It was a productive visit, but not without some issues.

Here’s what the RE had to say:

Stop nursing and do not attempt to get pregnant for at least 2 months after you stop,
Have another HSG,
Do a low dose of injectible fertility drugs next time, and two insems in the cycle, even though you only have 3 vials left,
Their magic potion doesn’t really do much to frozen sperm,
Do IVF if that doesn’t work; the cost for our IVF services are between $12-20k. (Probably for us it would be closer to $12k than 20. Still!)

Also, they are “out of network” for my insurance, which means that we’d have to pay 30% instead of 10% while we’re still doing IUIs. Nothing in IVF is covered.

Given all that, I’m not inclined to switch REs. I’m leaning more towards having a consult appointment with my current RE, to ask about switching to injectibles, the HSG issue (not that I want one), etc.

BTW, I think we have achieved weaning. It’s been 3 days, and Noah didn’t even ask to nurse last night while he was hot, flushed, and miserable.

Have I mentioned that I feel HORRIBLE about the fact that less than 48 hours after Noah quit getting my antibodies on an (almost) daily basis, he got sick?

3 Responses to “ Post-RE Update & Sick Boy ”

Comments:

shelli says:
October 31st, 2007 at 11:01 am

Just remember that the “baby bubonic plague” is GOOD for them, and for their little immune systems. Malka had a nasty one last year, and it really helped her immune system develop.

Do NOT beat yourself up over this! Poor boo.

Reno says:
October 31st, 2007 at 12:59 pm

I was thinking the same thing — he needs to start developing his own immune system.

Still, my heart goes out to all of you.

Maybe his apple murmuring was thirst, given that he was drinking apple juice earlier?

grandma/mom says:
October 31st, 2007 at 8:12 pm

He did not get rid of the immunities you passed on in the short time between last nursing and day care plague! It takes a much longer time to get real antibodies out of the body (think about how long injected immunizations last). It is NOT your fault he got sick. After all, he did get sick when you were still nursing — like last year.

And the others are also correct. He has to develop immunities to stuff you have long outgrown.

But I still think it was the parsnips!