We have been taking turns who stays home with Jillian this week. Friday Brent got it worked out so he could work from home.
Thursday night into Friday was another long night with little sleep. Before bed Jillian vomited twice and I woke up to her during the night trying to hold more vomit in.
Friday morning I got up and went to work. I got a text while I was at work asking where the thermonitor was and then a text conferming she now has a fever. She had yet to have a fever during this illness and i knew adding a fever 4 days in probably was not good, especially since she was so lethargic and now vomiting. I called the dr on my way home from work at noon. The nurse called me back at 1:30 and said they wanted us to go back to the ER. I knew they were right and that's what we needed to do but it made my heart hurt.
We packed her up and hit the road. Some days that hour long drive feels like forever!
We got checked in and they brought us to triage. They took her temp which was now normal however by this point her tylonal had kicked in. Her pulse ox was ok however she was crying when they took it.
They brought us to a room. The nurse came in and checked her out and did intake questions (asked about why she does not have all her shots).
Then a fellow came in. He looked at her and listened. He said she had diminished breath sounds on the left side. He said the supervising dr would be in.
The supervising dr came in. She listened to Jillian. She said she did not need a chest X-ray... You could hear the crackle in her right lung. She could point to where the pneumonia was. While we were in the ER Jillian lost her voice and since has a very scratchy sounding voice that is hard to understand.
The assumption is Jillian choked on the cauliflower on Sunday, irritated the throat causing the croupy cough, and then it took it a few days to hit all out pneumonia. Her current vomiting and fever are from the pneumonia.
They prescribed a heavy duty antibiotic because of it being a food aspiration. They said the normal antibiotic for pneumonia would not touch it. Walgreens questioned the antibiotic since it is do heavy duty.
We brought her home and she went back to laying on the couch. She and I came up to bed around 8:30. I ended up being awake 80% of the night because she needed different meds at different times and she was coughing and vomiting so much. I did not realize home much vomit there was until she got up this morning and part of her pajamas were green from vomiting bile. This vomiting is not helping her lungs heal
This morning she got up and cuddled. I looked at her ears and her hair is stuck to her ear because so much puss and wax is coming out. I tried to look in her ear and all you can see is puss. She now has probably developed an ear infection on top of it all. Her respiratory rate has varried a lot today and climbed to places I don't like. Her fever is still there and so is the cough.
I am amazed at her good sprits. Yes she is crabby and wants to be held but she could be worse. While she cried as they did her tests yesterday she never pushed them away or tried to hit them. She offered body parts for different tests even though she hates them ( she gave them her finger for her pulse ox even though it scares her a lot) she has mainly hustled wanted to watch movies so our tv has been a nonstop kids show.
Today my parents came over to help us out. I am so grateful. I have adveraged 3hrs of sleep a night this week and the dishes and laundry have been piling up. She just wants to be held and it is more important to me to hold her then clean. However with all the vomit some laundry and stuff had to get done today
We will get through this too. It just proves once again that her body CANT handle food. Thank you to the people who have been praying for us this week or sent us kind words. It means A LOT!
She wanted to take selfies last night. It made her smile.
She just wanted to hug daddy's leg.
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