Well, here we go again:
What started as a pretty serious cold for Mya last weekend (serious enough to keep her home from daycare for 3 days), is now a seriously serious illness in Ben. He was working pretty hard to breathe on Saturday evening so we brought him in to the urgent care clinic around 7:30pm to get checked out. They didn't like his respiratory symptoms at all, so by 8:30 I was in the ER and just after midnight we were admitted to the hospital for the night with a diagnosis of RSV (a respiratory infection).
Poor guy. He's very tired and lethargic from using so much energy up just to breathe. He's hooked up to oxygen, which seems to be helping, and he's receiving some respiratory "percussion" treatments (aka strategic banging on the back) to loosen up his chest mucus. Hoping he can go home tomorrow, but we'll have to wait and see.
Apparently 'tis the season for this type of thing because a couple of friends have sick kids and I even bumped into a girl from work who's here with her 1 year-old son. Misery loves company.
No comments:
Post a Comment