Zack had pneumonia before Christmas and was doing fine & then on the Tuesday after Christmas his cough came back. Then it kept lingering, so by Thursday we were driving home and we decided to just have the after hours pediatric clinic check his cough. I thought that maybe the antibiotic hadn't healed the pneumonia all of the way. We went about 5:30pm and by 10:00pm we were still there. He had wheezing in his lungs & his oxygen levels weren't improving. So then we went to get a chest x-ray & it turned out to be a virus. After 3 breathing treatments he threw up the steroids & there were no improvements. The Dr. decided to send us up to Primary Children's Hospital.
He's such a good kid & never complains.
We ended up being there until 3:00am. After a 45 min. breathing treatment & more monitoring we got to go home. When we got home he finally fell asleep, then he throw-up at 4:00am, woke me up for a drink at 5:00am, then I sat there staring at him breathing thinking it wasn't ok. We finally got about 4 hours of sleep. We were SO tired!! He had to use an inhaler & the Dr. wanted me to wake him up every 4 hours for the first 2 nights. He had to be checked again the next day & he received another breathing treatment and finally by Monday his levels were back to normal. It was so scary, but I'm so grateful we have doctors to help us. I'm also SO thankful for my parents who took Tyler & Libby for the night. I honestly don't know what we would do without them.
So our New Year's Eve didn't turn out quite like we planned...we were too tired to celebrate in our usual way, but we were also SO thankful Zack was going to be OK!!
So we are hoping for a happy & healthy 2011!! Happy New Year!
We ended up being there until 3:00am. After a 45 min. breathing treatment & more monitoring we got to go home. When we got home he finally fell asleep, then he throw-up at 4:00am, woke me up for a drink at 5:00am, then I sat there staring at him breathing thinking it wasn't ok. We finally got about 4 hours of sleep. We were SO tired!! He had to use an inhaler & the Dr. wanted me to wake him up every 4 hours for the first 2 nights. He had to be checked again the next day & he received another breathing treatment and finally by Monday his levels were back to normal. It was so scary, but I'm so grateful we have doctors to help us. I'm also SO thankful for my parents who took Tyler & Libby for the night. I honestly don't know what we would do without them.
So our New Year's Eve didn't turn out quite like we planned...we were too tired to celebrate in our usual way, but we were also SO thankful Zack was going to be OK!!
So we are hoping for a happy & healthy 2011!! Happy New Year!
2 comments:
So thankful everything turned out well. Zack is such a good kid. . . never complains. We are blessed to live where we can get help. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy New Year too!
So sad but glad things are back to normal. Please keep in touch.
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