The Hospital :(

My sweet girl spent some time in the hospital. On Friday night I noticed she had a little dry cough. Saturday we went to the baseball game where she literally rolled in the grass. That night she was really coughing a lot. Sunday morning it was even worse. She could barely finish a sentence without coughing and she was starting to act really tired. I was putting her down for her afternoon nap, went to rub her stomach and noticed she was really trying hard to breath and was retracting. I did not hear wheezing but I definitely did not like watching her. So Jared and Carrie came over to watch Taylor and Josh and I were off to Banner Cardon’s Children’s ER. They put us in a room right away and started breathing treatments. She wasn’t wheezing because she wasn’t moving enough air. She soon had an IV, Oxygen nasal prongs, cont. pulse ox, and EKG leads. She got a dose of IV Magnesium and then we started IV steriods. We were in the ER for a few hours and about 5 breathing treatments with little improvement, so we were admitted. We had every 2 hour breathing treatments and continuous oxygen for the first 24+ hours, then slowly weaned from oxygen and spaced the treatments to every 4 hours. We were there two nights and three days. She wouldn’t eat anything and only drank maybe half of a chocolate milk. We went home with every 4 hour breathing treatments and oral steroids. Kaykay did amazing and we are so proud of her. She was exhausted and moody, but was overall very good. I was rarely allowed out of her bed and she was pretty clingy. Thank you to all of her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, friends and cousins for the visits, presents, watching Taylor, and all of your love!

Thank you to the Freeman’s for her cookie bouquet. She loved them and actually had a bite or two in the hospital, then ate some at home. She also loves her movie and dominos (she beats me almost every time!)