Tuesday, April 7, 2009

What an eventful weekend...

We had a pretty eventful weekend at our house. Started out fine on saturday morning and we ended the day at Primary Childrens hospital...
Kaydence woke up Saturday morning and was weezing a little bit. She has asthma so we didn't think much of it and gave her the inhaler and she started to get a little better but still was weezing when i went to work at noon. I called Rob from work at 4 and he said that her breathing had gotten much worse and was worried we'd have to take her to the doctor. Me being a first time mom, I freaked out and they let me leave work. When I got home it sounded like she was barely getting any air so we rushed her to the Insta care. Now, we still don't have health insurance is why we went to an Insta care, cuz they are supposed to be cheaper. So we got there and they gave her a couple Nebulizer treatments and a steriod shot and they got her breathing good enough that they could hear that there was something else going on... CROUP!! They were really concerned because it sounded like her airway was barely open so they made us go by ambulance to Primary Chilrens. Talk about scary!
When we got to the hospital they rushed her into the emergency and kept giving her more breathing treatments and she was on oxygen for hours. They took us to get an x-ray done of her throat and they were right, it looked completely clamped closed in the middle. Her having asthma made it a lot worse too. It was definitely a really bad viral infection in her throat. One that just had to run its course because it can't be treated with antibiotics.
So, they kept us over night. By this time things had gotten better that Kaydence wanted to eat and run around the room. They told us to try to keep her calm as much as possible but if you have a 1 year old, you know thats impossible for too long. By the time that they had us in our room for the night she could go off the oxygen for little bits of time. So we would let her play for a bit cuz she really wanted to explore this new room. She slept ok during the night. A couple hours at a time. They came in to check her stats cuz she was all hooked up to machines and she would wake up every time and just wanted mom so I got maybe 3 hours of sleep.
The doctor came in the morning and said that they wanted to observe her a while longer and she got to where she could totally breath on her own. They finally let us go home in the afternoon. YAY!!
Kaydence is doing well now. She starts to weez if we let her wonder around the house so we try to keep her in one place as much as we can. We've watched High School Musical over and over to keep her happy. Hey, being a mom is about sacrifice right! It's so awesome to hear her talk again and know that she is going to be ok. She means the world to us and I cannot tell you how scary this has all been but we are so so lucky that she is getting better and will be the same ol Kaydee in a few days. We are so blessed! They said that she'll be pretty sick for awhile but hopefully the worst is over. We're supposed to stay away from people for 7 to 10 days as well so we'll be m.i.a for while but we don't wanna share the love.

9 comments:

Jen @ Love, the Arthurs said...

Wow. That is so scary! I'm glad she's getting better, and everything is turning out okay! If you need anything, please let us know!

Wendy said...

oh my goodness that is really frightening, there is nothing worse than watching your child struggle for air! Glad she is feeling better! Hope you are all well soon.

Mike and Jill said...

Sounds familiar! That is no fun to see your kid go through that! You'd do anything to take it away from them and put it in your body. I'm so glad she is ok!

REYNOLDS FAMILY said...

Oh that breaks my heart..poor little girl that is no fun:( I'm sure you will be so glad to get her better and get out of the house..the one good thing about them being sick is all the cuddle time you get! Hope she gets better soon, I had asthma really bad as a child too since I was a preemie I totally remember throwing tantrums because I didn't want to use my nebulizer.

Lucy said...

I hope that all goes well with her from here on out!! I love her very dearly! Let me know if you ever need anything!

EA said...

Crazy! I had no idea that any of this happened until I saw your facebook status. I'm glad that you guys took action so she was able to recover okay.

Kellie Glade said...

Poor little girl! I hope she is feeling better. Raegan has been sick this week as well. Let me know if you guys need anything.

Krystal said...

Im so glad kaydence is ok. That would be so scary. Hopefully she is back to normal quickly.

Tracy Smythe said...

So sorry to hear about your hospital adventure...hope you guys are doing better. Were you guys in the RTU? That floor and crib look all too familiar!