Saturday afternoon/evening we had a lovely time at a friend of ours wedding reception. Brent was the DJ and it was fun to see a lot of people from the Boy Scout troop that Seth and Brent are a part of.
My night took a turn. I came in contact with latex... I took a neb and a couple of Benadryl and hoped for the best. We gave Jillian a neb because she was not breathing great. My respiratory rate was dropping, heart rate rising, I had hives all over, and I could not walk without coughing. Brent and my dad were still at the reception so mom got Jilli and I to the car and took me to the ER. They did an IV with meds and a couple of nebs (yeah for 3 nebs in an hour and a half) and I got discharged during the night. I went back to my parents and crashed. I woke up around 5 having a hard time breathing and moved to the living room and did a neb. I fell back to sleep around 8am on the couch.
Around 9 I woke up to the sound that makes my heart cry. It was the sound of the horrid cough the Jillian gets after getting shots. She was coughing so hard she could not catch her breath. By the time I got back to the room my mom and Brent were giving her a neb. By the end of the neb the coughing had subsided but she was retracting. We brought her up the the Children's ER.
They did vitals. Her pulse ox was 96 but strangely her rectal temp was 96.9. She was really lethargic. A doctor came in and listened to her and we talked. She decided to call immunology.... they gave her the shot, they could deal with it. They decided to give her steroids and have us continue to do nebs every 4 hours. Since we are use to do all of that at home, they let us go. They also sent a script for a thrush med again. That had been gone for months however her body was not able to keep it at bay with everything else going on.
So we went and dropped off my scripts at Walgreens and went through the Wendy's drive thought to get lunch (it was 2pm at this point) and went and hung out at my parents. Brent went later and picked up our meds and then we went home.
Today Jillian woke up with a cough however it was nothing like yesterday's. She was pretty sleepy this morning and would look at books for a little bit and then would come and curl up with my a rest for a while. We had a follow up today with her ped. She read the note this morning from Children's and she thought it must be wrong because who would give Jillian a vaccine, let alone MMR. When we got there she understood it all better but was still surprised. She had a medical student with her and she explained how this is how Jillian reacts to shots and no one is sure why. She said the steroids are working and her lungs are sounding better. She said to keep doing the nebs as needed.
I am feeling better as the day goes on. I am still coughing but doing better. Mainly just exhausted. We made it through!
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| We look great! |
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| Curled up taking a neb |
Sounds rough! I don't know how you do it!
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