Darren Detweiler

We saw some blood in his stool, and we were also noticing decreased urine output.

But the bloody diarrhea was, I mean, that was, as you can imagine, that was alarming.

They started on my V fluids and, you know, just sitting there in that hospital, which strangely was across the street from his daycare center.

sitting there with him, holding him on my lap for much of this when he was, you know, with his IV.

And there was a sense of, oh, this is going to be fine.

We're just going to pump through full of fluids and it'll be fine.

But everything escalated so quickly.

I wanted to go up to the helicopter pad and they wouldn't, you know, our protocols won't allow this, you know, and I could understand that.

Believe me, I can understand that.

But the craziest thing was that by this time the local news had been notified of this and him being taken on a stretcher on the helicopter pad and loaded onto the helicopter was being covered live on the television.

And so his mother and I are still down in his hospital room where the nurses were basically processing us out so we could leave to drive down.

It's about an hour and a half drive.

down to the Children's Hospital.

And we turn around and we're watching this being covered live on the local news.

And there's my son.

He's under a silver space blanket.

I could see his face.

He's dwarfed by this huge teddy bear, but I could see this tuft of hair and I can see his eyes wider than you would ever imagine as he's being loaded onto this helicopter.

It took us about, I would say, two hours in all to get down to Children's Hospital.

And it was a very quiet drive.