He'll be OK (or should be), but Dylan was taken by ambulance yesterday back to the ER. The fevers have been spiking past 104 and all symptoms even worse then before. Which I didn't know, as he'd gone back to the flat (they've no phone, only the phone of certain friends). To their great credit, his friends'd been working to get his fevers down, and no one leaving him alone. It sounds like he worsened quickly and progressively in a 24 hour or so period.

I don't know how one of his friends got him down the stairs and outside the flat (I would've never counseled to move him), but that was the scene that greeted me, on the doorstep. I called for the ambulance, he was just a wreck, and had lost his voice and couldn't sit up and was shaking and burning and hacking. The friend went w/ me to hospital where we spent 8 hours.

Now he's in a children's hospital, which is turning out so far to be a better thing.

He has empyema, a fluid infection outside the lung. Depending on the consistency of that fluid the procedure to drain it is determined. In Dylan's case surgery is required. The ER doc seemed good...I saw the pneumonia via x-ray and the empyema. The lab for mono's being re-run. ER doctor said the emp. explains all the fever, sweats, shakes, fatigue, pain, disorientation and terrible cough.

He is just sooo sick. And being pretty darn sweet about it.