Little Man Is Hospitalized

*Colton Easter morning before he began his shallow breathing*

We have been in Pediatrics at Clarian West since Sunday. We originally brought Colton in because we were concerned he was getting dehydrated from being ill. He wasn't eating or drinking anything and hadn't had any wet diapers for 6 hours. Of course it was Easter Sunday so the Immediate Care was closed. We got here Sunday at 2:00 PM, waited until 6:00 PM to see a doctor, and then was admitted to Peds at 9:30 PM.

Our initial concern of dehydration was cleared but they had concern about his breathing. He was breathing way too fast.  So the gave him a breathing treatments of albuterol and steroids but his fever spiked to 102 and he was still taking real short breaths.

Dr. Duck saw us Monday morning. Colton does have an ear infection in his right ear so they began some antiobiotic treatments to clear up any infections he might have. Dr. Duck also prescribed prednisone and double doses of breathing treatments every 2 hours. We continued this through last night and have been bumped up to treatments every 3 hours now.

The main concern is that when Colton sleeps, his oxygen saturation drops really low. Babies are naturally designed to wake up when it gets too low but we just aren't sure why this is happening. The breathing treatments have definitely cleared him up but hasn't taken care of the oxygen issue yet. There could be some secretions or imflammation still in his chest causing the drop in oxygen and they keep telling us to give the steroids time to work but nothing yet.  We aren't allowed to be discharged until he is at treatments every 4 hours and not needing oxygen when he sleeps. So we'll be here atleast another night but they are hoping that we can switch to every 4 hours by this evening.  I'll update when I can but keep us in your prayers!

 

*Just checked in ... not feeling very well*

*We put the ER in East-ER*

*Sweet baby boy*

 

*In pretty good spirits on Monday*

*Let me out of here*