Son in ICU

It is very difficult to know anyone that has to be in Intensive Care but how about your son at only 3 weeks old? My husband and I had to deal with this. Exactly to the day of my son being 3 weeks old, he came down with a fever and this too was the day that my mom was coming to see him for the first time. I needed to call the local hospital because the tylenol and advil said not ti give to a baby under 6 weeks old. When I spoke to the nurse at the hospital, she advised me that I needed to take him to the Children's hospital because with him so little they would need to admit him in order to find out why he had a fever. At midnight, we drove 35 minutes to the children's hospital in downtown Atlanta where they administered Tylenol, did a spinal tap, did blood work and a urine test. This was extremely difficult for me because the nurse's had to poke my sons veins 8 times before they could get his IV started. They told us right up front that they would keep him overnight to monitor him. The next day, he broke out in a rash and the fever was not breaking and of course no one knew what was wrong with him. They started him on antibiotics and they ended up transporting him to Egleston that evening in Intensiv Care. We didn't realize how sick he really was but he stayed in the hospital for 10 nights in which 3 of them was in Intensive Care. All of the tests came back normal and they only thing that came out of this is they advised it was some kind of bacterial or viral infection. He had the fever for 5 straight days even though he was taken Tylenol on a regular basis. This was extremely hard on both my husband and I because we lived more than 50 miles away from the hospital and between the 2 of us, we spent the night with my son while the other one watched my daughter. I had to make 2-3 trips a day back and forth from the hospital because my daughter was in school and my husband had to work. Thank god since he has been home, he hasn't gotten sick like that again.