update on carsten

Many of you have been praying for our littlest man Carsten (aka boose). He spiked a high fever last Wednesday evening of 104.2, the following night of 105 and continued thru the week with high fevers, esp. in the evenings. I called the Dr. here on Friday morning to get him in and could not get through and did not get a call back until 1.45, informing me he was leaving for an early weekend at 2, without a car I was out of luck. Why do my kids always get sick or take a turn for the worse on Friday, late afternoon?
We had friends come for the weekend from Angola. Saturday was Kylea's 10th birthday party in the afternoon and Doug had been gone all day out doing a compassion meeting with one of our regions. Carsten seemed to be feeling better, until the evening when again we were back up to 104+. Sunday morning Doug took the kids and I to church and then took Carsten up to the clinic in the capital city, Mbabane. The Dr. did not find it necessary to do a blood test, but gave antibiotics and MORE ibuprofin. By Sunday afternoon, he had lost his little perky personality and began to really look sick so I called a Dr. in Nelspruit (a great ped.)
We drove thru on Tuesday morning and after an extensive exam, sent us down to get blood work and x-rays. Because we are private insured through the states we have to pay everything up front, ugh! So I had to front $ just for the blood work. As I was getting ready to pay, the nurse came thru to let us know that the Dr. also was ordering a liver function test as he found belirubin in his wee. Poor little guy, they wrapped him up in a blanket like a little burrito and took 3 viles of blood. Traumatized, we then I headed down the hall to the radiology lab to pay, then to have x-rays taken. Back up to the Dr.'s where we were given meds. (different than Sunday), for sinus and ear infection. He requested that we stay in Nelspruit to have a check again Wed. and results on blood work.
Went back in this morning and his lab results were that he had some atypical Mycoplasma pnomonia (yes, I spelled that wrong). Which is not pnomonia. Also, the average child's allergy count is 0-10 and Carsten's is 302.2, so now the blood work is being broken down even more to see exactly what allergies we are dealing with. The liver function test came back fine, ptl!
That is the short version of our last week, thanks for your prayers as we continue to get our little man well again! We are home in our beds Carsten is coughing a lot but the fever is very minimal tonight! Thanks for your prayers!!