Arrangement Of Love

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

I meant what I said to Jax and Juan. I am feeling better about losing them. I'm still worried I won't be a good mom but that is something all new mom's worry about. I am sitting at home with the twins and they have been sleeping for a while. Juan is working but the garage is only five minutes away. I go to check on the babies and Natalie seems fine but when I touch Carlos, he's burning up. I get the thermometer and take his temperature and see that it's 103* and I grab my phone and call Juan. "Hey babe. What's up?" Juan asked. "I think we need to take Carlos to the ER. He's running a fever of 103 and I can't get him to respond to me." I tell him almost in tears. "I'm on my way. Get his diaper bag ready." he tells me and ends the call. A couple of minutes later, Juan walks in and grabs Carlos and Gemma is behind him. "I got baby girl." she tells me and we run out the door and to St Thomas.

We have been at St Thomas for over an hour and the doctor finally tells us what's going on. "Looks like he has a bacterial infection but him being as young as he is, we want to keep him here overnight at least so that we can moniter him. He's still running a fever but it is lower than when he came in." she says. I call Gemma to tell her that they are keeping Carlos overnight and she agrees to take Natalie to her house for the night.

We had been sitting beside Carlos' crib, just watching him. I don't take my eyes off of him, scared that something will happen. About 3am, one of the alarms goes off on one of the machines hooked up to Carlos and three nurses start filing into the room. Juan and I step back and we see Carlos' little body start convulsing. One of the nurses leads us out of the room. "No! I want to be with my son!" I yell, crying. Ten minutes later, the nurse let's us back into the room and we are immediately by Carlos' side. The doctor comes in and explains what happened. "His fever spiked to 105 and caused him to have a small seizure. We have given him a different medicine that should bring the fever down but this seizure, we won't know if it did any damage until he gets older but we are still going to moniter him." she tells us.

After the doctor and nurses leave the room, we are sitting beside Carlos and I am in Juan's lap and we are both crying. "He's going to be okay baby." he tries to assure me but I am still scared. Neither of us sleep at all that night. We both just sit there, watching him. Neither of us saying anything.

The next morning, Jax comes to the hospital to check on us. "How's he doing?" he asked. "His fever is finally broken but they want to keep him until tomorrow just for precaution because of the seizure last night." Juan tells Jax and he rubs his hand down his face. "Seizure? Is he okay?" Jax asked. "We think so. They won't know until he's older if there's any damage from the seizure but they think his fever will stay down." Juan explains. "I just got off the phone with Gemma. She says Natalie is okay." I tell both men.

After Jax leaves, we sit back down next to Carlos and just watch him. "Babe, you need to get some sleep." Juan tells me. "I can't sleep. Not until I know my baby is going to be okay." I tell him. "Come here." he says and I walk over to him on the other side of the bed. He pulls the reclining chair over to the bed and pulls out the footrest. Sitting down, I sit with him and we just watch Carlos in silence. I must have dozed off because next thing I know, it's morning and Juan is still watching Carlos. "Hey baby." I say. "How'd you sleep?" he asked. "Okay. Any change?" I asked. "Doctor came in a few minutes ago and said that he might get to go home today since his fever has stayed down." he tells me. "Good. Why don't you sleep for a little bit and I will keep watch." I tell him and he kisses me before closing his eyes.