Phillips hospital stay June 2006

The Dr's gave you antibiotics and tylenol and the fevers still continued, the rash still came back and you still didn't want to use your arm. We were very scared. It was very frightening going day to day and not knowing what was wrong with you. Every day a different Dr would come in and say the he/she was a new specialist that was working on your case. You ended up with 5 specialist, 3 residents, 3 pediatricians and a student all working together to find out what was wrong with you. None of the Dr's had a definate answer. They were all leaning toward Juvenile Rheumatoid Authritis but none of them could say for sure. They advised that time would be the only way we could tell what the disease was. Everytime they would think that you were cured you would get another fever. The day we left the hospital we had an appointment with Dr Gabriel your Rheumatologist. You left the hospital Friday and had a fever by Monday. Dr Gabriel decided that he would diagnose with JRA. You started all of your medication on Wednesday. It was very fast. I had to learn how to give you a shot. That was scary. We both made it through though! Here are pictures of your first night in the hospital. You watched Nemo the whole time you were there.