Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Hey remember me?!

It's been far too long. Since the last time I actually wrote an update more then a few sentences long
  • My son had RSV and we had a horrible hospital experience and believe you me I am going to write about it.
  • We moved from a cramped. cold house to a big warm house
  • My son go sick again.
So I have been pretty busy.

So we'll play a little catch up now.

or later tonight because my kids ALWAYS know when I am about to get into something for a bit and wake up from their naps and I can hear them both stirring and since I can type super fast here is the short version for now.

Son had fever, took him to the dr., she said he had RSV but sent us to the hospital for a high heart rate. They said he didn't have it, bullied us for an hour and a half to let him have a spinal tap. Didn't want to do it but finally caved, he didn't have what they were testing us for and to this day we just feel like the crappiest parents in the world.

Wanted us to let them keep him over night and told us if we didn't we were "taking your baby home to die" yep that's right, a Dr. told us this.

He did end up having RSV, I stayed with my son and didn't let him out of my sight. The first night he slept next to me because if I put him down the monitor said his oxygen levels were down and heart rate went up, when I held him his oxygen levels were at 100% and his heart rate was normal.

I was told this was a fluke though three different monitors said the same thing thank you very much.

Then my son was put into an oxygen tent because they didn't want him to sleep next to me which I was ok with because it gave my arms and back a break.

They wanted me to wake him up every two hours to feed him which just caused him to be mad because he USED to sleep seven hours straight, and he needed his rest.

The last night we were there the monitor kept going off because it was for newborn and he would find a way to get it off his foot. I wanted them to put a new one on so I could sleep because he turns himself side ways when his sleep elevated but the nurse didn't want to change it or listen to the beeping so she SHUT THE DOOR.

I wanted him to be able to sleep so I shut it off and just decided to stay awake, it was around Three in the morning, I remember because I was super tired and it's a good thing I did stay awake because he did in fact turn himself and his face was smooshed against the plastic of his wall tent, if I had gone back to sleep my son would have died.
The nurse finally came back around five in the morning and put a new monitor on him.

The next morning after four days of being in the hospital we finally go to leave.

Ok my kids are awake now so I'll have to finish this tonight, or tomorrow when my daughter is at school and my son will hopefully be sleeping.

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