One brave little boy

Thursday evening we had to take Chance to the emergency room.  He had been acting normal all day with Ben's mom, but when we got him home he was not himself.  He had a pretty high fever around 6pm, so we decided to take him to the pedi urgent care just in case.  He vomited an extreme amount as we were leaving the house and once we got to the urgent care.  They took one look at him and said we cannot do anything for him, took our money and told us to go to the ER as quickly as possible.  For the high energy guy he is, he looked awful and had no energy.  He could not lift his head off my shoulder and was so very pale.  Once we got to Methodist we were taken back literally within minutes.  We had the kindest nurses and doctor while we were there.  They quickly drew blood and started and IV with something for his vomiting.  It was crazy but Ben and I remained calm through the whole thing.  God definitely had his hand over us and our fears.  They feared he had meningitis due to the rapid onset.  They wanted him to perk up with the fluids, if not they were going to do a spinal tap.  Chance was so brave!  He hardly cried with the IV and they had to take urine as well.  His nurses told him that he was going to be a superhero when he grows up!  I totally agree!  I didn't cry amazingly enough until I told Katy the next day about how brave he was!  After a few hours the results came back with a positive for a bladder infection, dehydration from the vomiting, and an ear infection in both ears.  Our pediatrician the next day concluded that he threw up due to the rapid onset of the fever due to the ear infections!  If was a perfect storm as they were telling us at the hospital.  We got released about midnight after Chance perked up and was no longer a rag doll just laying there.  He was somewhat back to normal on Friday and is slowly regaining his strength.  We thank God for watching over our little boy and that little voice inside his Mama to go get him help.  Chance is one tough little boy and we are so proud that he is our little guy!