Tuesday, September 8, 2009: What a rollercoaster experience this morning. I received a call from our agency telling us that they had just received news about Andres being sick. Of course, our agency starts out by saying "Don't panic, but..." The first thing i did was panic. They told us he was just diagnosed with scarlet fever. I couldn't believe this was happening at this time. All I could think of was how fast could I get to Colombia to be with our baby boy.
I immediately called the pediatrician here at the International Adoption Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital. He thought it was very strange to have a 5-month old with scarlet fever. He said that is something found in 5 year olds not 5 months old. He asked me to confirm some other tests with the orphanage, and an email went out to them with my questions.
After a few hours, I got another email, saying that he in fact did NOT have scarlet fever. They apologized for alarming us, and that what Andres has is a respiratory infection with a rash, and it looked like scarlet fever, but was NOT. Whew! Of course, having him with a respiratory infection doesn't make me feel too good either, but he is on antibiotics and doing well.
Please pray for our little boy to be nursed back to health soon. We plan to give him the best medicine when we get him - LOTS OF LOVE!
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