Back to the Hospital

So again, this month has been crazy with sickness.  On the 4th Greyson came home with a fever then it turned into croup.  On the 9th I got the flu.  On the 10th we found out Greyson had RSV (because he just wasn't recovering from Croup very well).  Then Mike got a cold and on the 13th Gavin threw up.  On the 12th Garett's cold started and by the 14th he was struggling to breathe, not eating very well and had a fever.

On the 15th, after he had been wheezing all day, I took him to the ER.  We got there at 8:45 pm after he had thrown up everything he ate for dinner.  I didn't have any clothes for him, so that was nice.  We finally got to a room at 10:15 and about 10:45 they came in to see us.  They suctioned him and tested for RSV.  He was positive for it.  At about midnight they were going to release us but his oxygen levels started to dip below 92%, so they had to give him oxygen and admit us.  That was horrible.  At about 3:30am we got into our hospital room and had a horrible rest of the night.  The plan was he had to be off oxygen and breathing at 92% or better for 6 hours.  So at 9am they took him off the oxygen with the hopes of going home at 3pm!  He did really good, kept hydrated and they released us at 4:30 with a prescription for an ear infection (why he kept fevering).  He threw up again Monday night when we got home and Tuesday night after eating his bottle before bed.

On Monday, Mike also got the flu and since the 14th I have had this wicked cold.  But everyone (except me) is on the mend and doing better.  Garett is a little stuffy and had a cough still but everyone else is getting better! Thank goodness! Now, if I could only get better...

Not feeling good, but being a happy boy

More sick, but happy in the bath

I'm so sick (before taking him to the ER)

Being admitted to the hospital

After being admitted to our room

Croup...Again

We have been Sick, Sick, Sick this month.  It all started on February 4th when Greyson came home from Preschool with a fever.  He said his tummy hurt.  On Thursday he was a little better and Friday he was coughing and wheezing.  Friday night, the 6th, he woke up at 11:30 freaking out because he couldn't breathe and wanted to go to the hospital.  It was 58* outside so that wasn't helping.  He got a breathing treatment and steroids and we were hoping that that would be the end of it.  Stay tuned...

It wouldn't be 5 weeks later without a trip to the ER with Grey

New Years Day

On New Years Day, we had a great day playing with our Christmas Toys, Shopping and exchanging some Christmas stuff we had gotten and playing as a family.  That was bath night and when Greyson got in the bath, I was washing him and he said showing me his left leg, "Mom, this hurt me last night."  It was bright red and swollen and had white in the middle.  It looked like a spider bite that was infected.  He wasn't crying, just saying that it hurt.  So, to be on the safe side, I took him to the ER.  Of course, because we still haven't paid the balance we owe on the Thanksgiving ER trip yet (oops, need to pay that!)  When we got there, it was SO BUSY.  And I looked at his leg, and it didn't look as bad as when we left, so I felt like a loser.  Everyone was sick and miserable and Greyson was running a screaming around everyone.  It was great.  We finally got back about an hour after we got there and left about 3 hours after we first arrived.  The Dr. determined that it was a burn of some sort, like a rug burn.  But I don't know how he would have gotten it randomly on the middle of his leg.  So they asked that we keep it covered because he was scratching it and they didn't want it to get infected.  They gave him an antibiotic as well.  It looks so much better now!