Ok, I swear I'm going to be better about reading posts now. But boy it has it been a crazy week.
What a night last night was, I am exhausted! I brought Toby in yesterday morning for his 10 am 4 month check-up. I noticed his breathing was getting more and more labored, so we went in early because I was getting antsy about it. The nurses heard him and immediately were really concerned. The doctor came in and said "Ok, I'm sending you over to the Children's Hospital ER. The hospital is connected to my Group Health building by an under-street tunnel, so we just picked up our stuff and a nurse walked us over.
We spent six hours sitting in the ER so they could monitor his condition. His oxygen levels were good, but he was really having to work hard to keep them there. They gave him a few breathing treatments, not albuterol, but just stuff to help loosen up all the gunk in his lungs. Poor little guy just coughed and coughed. They also used their turbo-nose sucker to help suction out a lot of the stuff in there.
By about 4 pm, he was sounding a lot better, but they decided to err on the side of caution and admit him for the night to keep an eye on him.
His preemie history meant that he's prone to respiratory things, and they wanted him in the hospital in case things went downhill quickly.
So Toby and I sat in a little room in the Observation Unit all night. They did three more breathing treatments on him. and he coughed a lot. slept a bit, and nursed a ton.
I slept maybe two hours total, since I spent most of the night sitting up in a chair rocking him. In the morning they decided he was looking better, breathing better, and still eating normally, so we could go home. We have a follow up appointment next week, but the pedi in the hospital said he was pretty sure that we were over the worst of it, and he'd start getting better from now on. I sure hope so!!
