Well we had our very first 2:30am trip to the ER Easter Sunday morning.
Here's the scoop: Miss Nina was laboring to breathe Sunday morning/night around 2am...she was retracting and breathing really quickly. ALso had runny nose and cough.
Called Ped and he heard her coughing over the phone and said to go to ER so off we went into the night like the VonTrapp family. Got to ER around 3am. Her pulse ox was 94 and she had a 100 or 101 temp. Started her on blow by O2. During the ER part of the adventure she had a bronchospasm which required one hour long breathing treatment of albuterol and another steriod (cannot rem name) They worked and she was better.
Chest x-ray normal, blood normal...Watching her get blood drawn was HORRIFIC!
Around 10:30 we were admitted to the Ped floor. They put her on prednisone 2x a day for 5 days and started albuterol every two hours with the nebulizer. She slept through the night Sunday without any O2 so they downgraded to every 4 hour treatments. She held her sats on every 4 so we were send home Monday afternoon.
Docs say she caught a virus and affected her breathing/lungs. Called it reactive airway disease.
So we have been home since yesterday afternoon. The whole 36 hours we were at the hospital she really never acted sick. She was happy and loved to play in the ped's playroom and ride in the wagon. Nina is just amazing that she bounced back so quickly from this!
9 comments:
Oh no, poor little Nina. I'm glad that she's bounced back well. Amelia's got some respiratory bug right now too. Can't winter (and cold & flu season) be over already?
I remember when Alex was 1 he had to get blood drawn. It was the worst experience ever!
Erin
Poor little Nina, I am glad she bounced back so quickly. Brie was hospitalized last winter for pneumonia and it was horrible.
Poor Nina! I'm glad she is back home and doing well.
Welcome Home Nina and whew!!!!
She's stronger than we could ever imagine!
Doesn't it seem that (ex)preemies get admitted to the hospital at least once a year, usually in March or April? I am glad she is doing better. Michael caught a virus (in school) and he was admitted for 4 days with continuous IV. In May he is going to have surgery on his eyes, so I have decided to take him out of 'school' until August. Hopefully that will give him some time to build up some immunity for the next school year :)
How Scary! I hope she is OK. Carson got RSV/broncholitis in Jan when he was 5 months it was horrible. It's just so frighting to see such a little person go through so much. I hope you all are hanging in there.
Amy Gelb
Poor you guys. That is not fun. I'm glad to hear she got to come home quickly and was a trooper through it all. How scary. Have you been told she has reactive airway before?
So sorry to see you had to spend some time in the hospital, but so glad to read Nina has bounced back!
Hope you guys have no more sickness! Hurry up, Spring!!!
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