Ally can usually be counted on to be our healthy little girl. She has had very few sicknesses and only a couple of doctor's appointments due to being ill. Well, Wednesday (the 24th of March) we put her to bed with a slight cough and were not that concerned. She was up every 15 minutes around 1 am which is not like her at all. We finally moved her to our bed at 3 am because she was so restless and when I saw her trying to breath I decided to take her in the ER. At the ER her oxygen level was low (around 91 so not terrible but lower than they want for a child) and went ahead and got her into a room.
She had two breathing treatments and a steroid between 4 am and 9 am. She was still breathing pretty heavy that they went ahead and admitted her over into pets. With Ally she handles things so well it is hard to know how she is actually feeling. Even in the ER when she was pretty miserable she still smiled and hardly ever complained.
The pediatric unit at IU West is absolutely amazing. We were the only patients for the two days she was there and the nurses and doctors are amazing. We thought the first day (we were admitted at about 9 am on Thursday) that she would just be monitored and as long as all went well we'd be out by Friday morning. She fell asleep for a nap and her oxygen dipped down to 88. They came in and put her on oxygen and she ended up needing that through the night. We were told we wouldn't be able to go home until she could go a night without oxygen.
Friday she was better in the morning so we took her off oxygen for awhile to see how she'd do. She was doing really well until she had a nap. During the nap her oxygen dropped down to 77 and they upped her oxygen to keep her in the low 90s. She was on a liter and the nurses and us were pretty sure she'd need a couple more days to get over this. At one point they were talking to us about transferring us over to Riley which was pretty scary until we realized that Ally was breathing so fast at the time the doctor was in because she was trying to help them listen to her breathing. They counted her at 64 breaths a minute when in actuality it was only in the low 40s. So thankfully after staying in and talking to us they realized that while she was trying to be helpful they had to remind her she does not need to breath faster when people are listening to her lungs.
Sam really missed his sister. My mom kept him entertained during the day with long walks around our neighborhood and he also went to the store to pick out a present for her. He wasn't allowed to visit because of an age restriction due to the flu making the rounds in the area, but was able to send her a present.
She loved it if you can't tell :) While we thought we'd need the oxygen Friday night but it turned out she had a huge coughing fit right before bed and they think that cleared out her lungs enough that her body could keep her oxygen above 95 on its own. We were released Saturday at noon just in time to hit our first Easter celebration. They think she had bronchialitis that possibly came on from a common cold. She also could have potentially had allergies that just got worse. Another option would be asthma since it does run in the family. She was sent home with an inhaler and two more days of steroids. We had to have a follow up doctors appointment after our vacation and she was still wheezing but that will hopefully go away in the next few days. She definitely had us scared but so glad she was in such great care at the hospital!
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