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I need to get this all written down before my memory starts to fade, with how tired I am I bet my memory is already fading.

Friday through Wednesday~

Trenton started out with a cold last week, he stayed home from school last Friday and spent the weekend miserable, laying on the couch, coughing, feverish and in general feeling pretty dang lousy. He was feeling quite a bit better by Monday morning, so I sent him to school. On Tuesday he went to school again, but felt like he had a headache, so I sent him with some ibuprofen. He came home from school and chilled out, but still went to scouts and hung out with his friends, so I thought he was getting better. I sent him to school again on Wednesday and when he got home he started complaining about his face hurting and his upper left teeth felt like they had cavities. This is when I started thinking that he had a sinus infection. He woke Hal and I up at about 2 in the morning crying in pain from all the pressure in his face. I gave him a Darvocet and sent him back to bed.

Thursday~

In the morning I called the Dr. and we got right in, Dr. Lauret checked Trenton over and agreed with me that he had a sinus infection. He put him on a strong antibiotic, told him to take a decongestant and to eat as many Popsicles as he could, LOL. He also said that this looked pretty acute and that if he didn't improve greatly over the next 24-36 hours to have him rechecked. So, we went home, filled the script and Trenton totally crashed. He slept most of the day, and spent the time when he was awake being miserable.

Friday~

Trenton woke up and his eye was very swollen, he felt like crap and had a fever. I called the Dr.'s office and the silly girl on the phone told me to wait and see, give the medicine a little more time to work.
I left Trenton home sleeping on the couch and went to Costco to get a few things. When I got home and looked at Trenton again, his eye was even more swollen! I called the Dr.'s office again and demanded to talk to a nurse. She said that she hadn't heard of that kind of reaction with a sinus infection before and suggested that we come back in.
I told Trenton to put his shoes and pants on, he had won another trip to the Dr. He was so miserable, he was crying and told me that he felt too awful to go, I told him he didn't have a choice, so off we went. On the way over, I told him that I wouldn't be surprised if they sent us to the hospital for a CT, I explained what it was and Trenton was a little worried about it.
We got to the office and only had to wait about 5 minutes before they took us back to a room and then we waited for about 20 more minutes before the Dr. came in, this is a record for this office. Dr. Nielsen was on call for Dr. Lauret. Dr. Nielsen is REALLY tall, about 6'8" and a really nice guy, I am so glad that he was there. He checked Trenton over and was concerned that the sinus infection had made its way into his eye socket and possibly into the eye itself. He said that he wanted to admit Trenton, give him IV antibiotics and do a CT., so off we went. I called Hal and told him what was happening and he met us at the hospital.
We arrived at the hospital at about 5:15pm, they got us settled into the treatment room and came to look at Trenton's vein's, needless to say the boy is a mystery, his vein's are horrible! They finally decided that they might be able to get one in a hand and so they put numbing cream on both of them and waited for a hour.
Dave, Heidi and Scarlet came down and Dave and Hal gave Trenton a blessing, I felt so much peace after the blessing, I knew that things were going to be okay, that Trenton was going to be healed and back to himself soon. The nurses came back in and poked 2 times before finally getting a vein. After they finally got the IV started and some blood work sent off they sent him down to CT and scanned his brain. After that we got settled in the room and they started his antibiotics. The Dr. came in and told us that they had looked at his scan and that the infection wasn't as far as they had thought it was, this was such wonderful news to hear. They said that it was periorbital cellulitis which is serious, but not as bad as if it had actually been in the orbit, Hal left to go get Jack and Hallie to sleep and I decided to stay the night with Trenton and of course Addy stayed with me. The hospital has pull out cots for parents to sleep on, they are a JOKE! Think of the worst sofa bed you have ever slept or been on and that is what they thought that I would sleep on, UGH!
Trenton started majorly complaining about his head itching about 1/2 hour after they started the antibiotics and soon after I turned the lights on to find a VERY red child, he looked like a lobster. I quickly pushed the nurse button and a couple of nurses came running into the room and with one look they both looked at each other and said "He has redman's syndrome". They explained to us that this is a fairly common reaction to the medicine and that they would give him benedryl before each dose to help counter act it. They gave him a nice dose of benedryl and he got nice and sleepy. At one point Trenton got up to go to the bathroom and ended up puking and shaking violently, his fever was up to 102.5 even with 800mg of Ibuprofen on board. The nurses came in and out all night long, so no sleep for us. At about 4am they said that they needed to draw his blood. 3 pokes and 45 minutes later they finally gave in and drew his blood off his IV. Then the night nurse came in for her last assessment and then a hour later the day nurse came in to do her assessment, can I just say that they over assess patients!

Saturday~

Hal arrived at the hospital at about 9am and I left to go to a baby shower for a good friend of mine. Hal was so sweet and told me to take my time, that I deserved a little break and that he could keep down the fort. So, I let him. I went to the shower and enjoyed chatting with my friends and seeing Jennifer's cute pregnant belly. Then I went to my Mom's and spent a little time with Jack and Hallie.
Hal called to tell me that they decided to add a 3rd antibiotic to the regimen and that Trenton's fever was back. Poor kid, he really was feeling horrible. I went back to the hospital at about 1:30 with Addy and Jack in tow and we visited for a little bit. Grandma Snow came in to see how Trenton was doing and she took Jack and let him play in the playroom, roam the hall's, go up and down the elevator and basically rule the joint. Needless to say, 2 hours later, Grandma Snow was dripping with sweat and swore that she had lost 10 pounds. Hal decided to take his turn with Trenton and went home to finish up some stuff and pack a bag for himself. He came back and I left to go get Hallie.
Hallie had spent the day with Grandma Julie, she convinced her to take her to the dollar store to get presents for Trenton, they got him a squishy brain, playing cards and a HUGE hershey's bar.
They BYU vs. UofU game was on, so I sat down on my Mom's couch and watched that until it got too depressing and so I packed up and went home.
I got home and I was SO tired, so tired that I couldn't sleep, so I did a couple loads of laundry and picked up the house. I went upstairs at one point to change Addy's diaper and get her ready for bed and I could hear Jack whining, I yelled down to him trying to get him to come upstairs. He stopped crying and I went to look for him. He had made it 1/2 up the stairs and then laid down on the landing and was falling asleep. I picked him up, changed him and laid him down to go to sleep. I started a movie for Hallie and folded some laundry and when all 3 kids were asleep I finally laid down and tossed and turned for a good hour before finally falling asleep. Ahhhhh, sleep at last.

Sunday~
I woke up and called Hal to see how their night went. Hal said that it went okay, they had watched Lord of the Rings and Trenton had fallen asleep when they gave him the benedryl. Trenton had actually slept pretty well, all in all it hadn't been that bad of a night, except when they tried to draw his blood. They poked him 2 or 3 times and finally drew the blood off the IV again.
I got the kids dressed and headed back to the hospital. Hal looked so tired, I doubt that he slept at all. We talked to the Dr.'s and they said that they had hoped to have seen more improvement. Trenton's eye was still very swollen, but his fever had gone down, so that was good. At about 10am it was time for more more benedryl in his IV and to start another round of antibiotics and that is when his vein blew. His arm started turning red and swelling up, so they had to take out the IV. The nurses came in to search for a new vein, they had 3 nurses in there, brought out a special light to help look for a vein and it took about 30 minutes for them to find a suitable one. They put more numbing cream on him and came back about 2 hours later. In the mean time, Kyler and Tausha came to visit and Trenton got more and more nervous about being poked yet again. By the time that they finally came back to try to start the IV, he was a nervous wreck. They poked him and couldn't get it started so they called the nursing supervisor to come give it a try. She came in and it took her 2 pokes and a lot of digging to finally get it in there. At one point they were trying to decide if they should see about getting a pic line placed.
After they finally got the IV in again I went down to get some lunch, when I came back up I looked at Trenton and I could see his eye!!! I felt like jumping for joy, he really was getting better! I started getting optimistic that we would be going home in the morning.
Trenton and I wanted to settle in and watch the newest Indian Jones, we started it and then were interrupted with lots of visitors, Grandma Snow & Grandpa Stan came over and while they were there Grandma Lorna & Grandma Julie showed up. After they had all left I went and got a shake for Trenton and some heavenly onion rings and we settled in yet again to start our movie, but then Grandpa Throckmorton & Grandma Jo showed up and we got to visit with them. After they left we again started the movie only to be visited by Hal, Hallie and Jack, they left to go find some dinner and then after trying to start the movie again Grandpa Doug came, it almost started getting funny! But in the end, Trenton felt very loved and we finally did get to see the movie, which by the way we both enjoyed.
We settled in for another long night. But things were looking pretty good. It was pretty quite for most of the night until Trenton's IV started hurting again. And lo and behold it had blown again! The night nurses immediately called the nursing supervisor and he came in with his bottles of lidocain (a numbing medicine) and took a look at Trenton's viens. It took him 2 tries, but he finally got it in there. They drew blood off of it and so, Trenton had his 3rd IV started.
Things settled down again and Trenton, Addy and I tried to get a couple of hours of sleep.

Monday~
After another long night, I got a chance to better look at Trenton's face, it was amazing! It was looking so much better. I was really excited and anxious for the Dr. to come in, I was hoping that things were good enough that we could go home. The resident Dr. came in and said that he was happy with the improvement, he had called for the infectious disease Dr. to come in and consult, but he thought that we would probably be going home. The specialist came in and told us that he felt comfortable discharging Trenton and sending him home on oral antibiotics, hallelujah!
It was interesting what the Dr. had to say, he told us that if we had waited 12-24 more hours to get treatment that this infection would have spread to his orbit and that would have meant 3wks of IV antibiotics and possibly surgery. We feel so blessed to have caught this when we did.
We packed up everything and Trenton got his IV out, for the last time! And we headed home!

Trenton is now on 2 different antibiotics, he has to take one every 12 hours and the other has to be taken every 6 hours, so for the next 2 weeks we will be waking up in the middle of the night to make sure that Trenton gets that dose, I am so willing to do that over being in the hospital. The hope now is that the oral meds work well and that this infection continues to go away.