Saturday Jillian woke up with a cruppy cough. We all woke up coughing though. Her cough subsided within a little bit so we did not think too much of it. Throughout the day she had a slight cough and a little bit of a runny nose. Neither of those things are too uncommon for her. I have had yucky sinuses since Friday so I figured she might just be having allergy issues like me. After all this child lived most of last spring and summer inside due to allergies.
We spent saturday night at my parents because Brent had sound for church Sunday morning. Around 12:30am she woke up coughing and coughed/gagged/choked for the next two hours. A little after 2am she fell back to sleep. Around 5:30 she started coughing again. Brent left for church a little after 6 and by 6:30 she was coughing a lot so I pulled her up into the bed with me so I could listen to her better. Around 7am my mom came in and I ended up finding a neb med in the diaper bag so we did a neb around 7:45 (we had forgotten her neb at home and she had not used it in several days). She was breathing so fast. I was getting a respiratory rate around 60. By 9am she still was breathing really fast and very lethargic. We decided then it was time for her to be seen.
Mom and I took her to the walk in at aurora. We registered at the desk and had a nurse take us back right away to do vitals. Her pulse ox was 89 and her respiratory rate was 56. Her temp was 100.0. The nurse went to talk to the dr. The dr listened to her and said they needed to transfer her to the ER. A nurse came back in and walked us to the ER. They brought us right back to a room.
Once in the room 3 nurses got to work doing her vitals. Her respiratory rate was up to 68. Shortly after a doctor came in and listened to her. We talked a little bit about her history. He ask if she were to be addmitted, where would we like to be? We told him the first choice was children's. He agreed and said that children's was a better place for her considering all of her other stuff and if he was us he would chose children's. We could tell when he left the room that he was planning on admitting her.
A little while later a nurse came in and tried to start an iv with no luck. They decided to stop trying. Radiology came in and took a chest X-ray. A respitory therapist came in and gave her a neb treatment. After a little bit a nurse came in to check on her and her pulse ox was going lower and lower so they started her on oxygen. A while later the dr came in. He said that he and the radiologist were disagreeing about the X-ray. One said pneumonia and the other did not. The dr said he was going to admit her and they were starting the process to transport her to children's. This is were the day started to move slowly. It took 3 hours to get the transport set up and for the ambulance to get there. The ambulance arrived and they strapped Jillian's car seat onto the stretcher and then strapped her in her car seat. She had to go via ambulance because she needed oxygen. Even on oxygen she was pretty lethargic.
I rode in the ambulance with Jillian and mom followed behind. We flew. For the first half of the trip she just looked around but the second half she slept.
Once we got to children's we went right from the ambulance bay to a room on W10. We started with nurses in doing their check in stuff. Her weight was up however it seamed high to me and she had a gown, diaper, and monitors on her.
The doctors came in and looked at her. They were having a hard time seeing her ear drums because there was so much wax. They dug it out but were still having a hard time seeing.
A little while later the hospital ped came in. She said the X-ray looked ok to her. She said the plan for now would be to watch her to see how she does and to try to get her off of the oxygen. She said this could be a virus or a reaction to the shot she had Wednesday. She got a look at her ears and one is at the start of an infection so we put her on an antibiotic.
She is getting nebs every 4hours. She is in isolation because it might be a virus.
It's almost 3am now. Around 2am we tried to bump her oxygen down. The meter was having a hard time stating where we wanted and her pulse ox started dropping again. We got her down a little bit from what she was however she is defiantly not ready to be off the oxygen. We will see what the rest of the day brings!
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