Shaking Our Sillies Out - Keith in Hospital

Taken this morning... Keith is in shorts and a t-shirt because he's running around with a 39.2 fever.  In this video, you wouldn't know it.  But this afternoon, he let us know just how miserable he feels... in case we missed yesterday's post-dinner vomit memo.  Perhaps Edward and I will be spared.  Perhaps not.  Oh, the suspense!

However, as you can see, they still LOVE Raffi.  And if you think the table doodling demonstrates an interesting abstract design, you should have seen Keith's face.  And Colin's tongue.  Thank God for non-toxic markers... and a reminder to me that I should make sure the markers are well out of 6-arms-reach when I try to fold the laundry.

Edit #1:  Yesterday late afternoon, it became clear to us that Keith was really unwell.  While Edward and I finished making dinner, he sat slumped against the living room wall as Colin and Evelyn played around him.  He crawled into my lap - Evelyn came by every now and again to pat him and say "Poor Keef", and Colin tried to tempt him with a stuffed caterpillar, but to no avail.

The situation became clear when Edward put Keith in the bath and called me upstairs.  A swath of Keith's left arm was bright red, and it hadn't been when I got him dressed that morning.  We had seen this before with Colin and we knew not to mess around with cellulitis.  Edward had to run (literally) to pick up our van, which was (of course!) at the garage getting the winter tires put on, and I dressed Keith for his Emerg visit.  We drew a circle in pen around the redness, and it had already passed the margin by the time he was seen by the doctor.  He was also developing the cellulitis on his right arm.  We have no idea how he got it, which is unsettling.  Edward and Keith got home at around 1:30 this morning; Keith was bright-eyed and ready to tell me all about his visit, but he eventually drifted off for some desperately needed sleep.  We have a course of antibiotics to follow, and although Keith is still feeling pretty poor this morning, we're hopeful the medication will kick in fast, as it did with Colin, and he'll be on the mend soon.

Edit #2:  After talking to our pediatrician this morning, Edward took Keith back to the Emergency.  He still had a fever of 39, and was extremely miserable.  In addition, the cellulitis was spreading up to his shoulder on one side and was spreading down his other arm.  It would seem that unlike Colin's case, where the infection was introduced via a puncture wound, in Keith's case, it is in his system and exhibiting itself outwards.  We'll see what they say, but his pediatrician wants him on IV antibiotics.  Stay tuned!

Edit #3:  Well, 8 hours in Emerg at CHEO later, and they're admitting Keith.  The doctors are not pleased with his response to the IV antibiotics, and they're doubting that it is a superficial skin infection.  Please, if you can send a positive thought to our Pumpkin, we'd be very grateful.