Sick kids!

You can see in her eyes how scared she was.

The paramedic gave her a bear to help her not be so scared.




As you can see by the end of the night she was tired and miserable!

Anyways at about 9 pm the doctor came in and said they would give her one more breathing treatment which would mean in half a day she would have had 6! And that if her pulse oxygen could stay at 94% we could go home. Finally at about 10 pm all the results were back she didn't have RSV, or pneumonia, or the influenza. The doctor said there was a chance she could have the swine flu but that they didn't have a way to test for it at the hospital and since asthmatic people were having serious complications like death from the swine flu that they would treat her with Tami flu as a preventative measure and give her oral steroids, along with antibiotics, singulair, and pulmicort and albuterol in her nebulizer. So a lot of medicine but it seems to be helping she is slowing wanting to eat and drink more and she is breathing easier. Ultimately they said this was all due to her asthma and bronchitis. They have finally decided to send us to a pediatric pulminologist in Sacramento to see why she keeps getting bronchitis.
Something funny she did say in the beginning is that she heard us talking about her heart rate and looking at the monitors and the lines going up and down showing her heart rate and she looked up at me and asked "Mom is my heart cracking?" It made me so sad and want to laugh because she thought the lines on the monitor were showing her heart cracking and she was worried!
So I have a bunch of new posting to do but I haven't gotten to them yet. But I thought I would write about what just happened to Adalyn. Well I just posted something about her asthma and bronchitis episodes and how she has had it every 6 weeks well here we are 6 weeks later and she is sick again!! It started Saturday night after our wards Halloween party I noticed she had a slight cough. So we gave her usual breathing treatment before bed. Sunday she woke up feeling okay but did still have a cough. We went to church and she was okay and we went on with our day but I started giving her breathing treatments every 4 hours to try and stop her cough from getting worse. Well Sunday night she was up coughing all night and started to get really sick. She had a fever and was just miserable. First thing Monday morning called and got her a doctor's appointment because she was wheezing and really struggling to breath. Also that morning she threw up in the van. So by the time we got to the doctor's office I had already given her 2 breathing treatments. Her pulse oxygen was 92% and she threw up all over the doctor's office. They immediately put us in a room it was 4 pm and I called Adam at work to come get Ellie because I new Adalyn was really sick. The doctor listened to her and she was wheezing, her heart rate was too high and she was working really hard to breath. They immediately gave her a breathing treatment which got her pulse oxygen to 93%. They gave her another breathing treatment. It didn’t help. After being in the doctor's office for an hour they came and told me that she was not getting better and that they would need to ambulance her to the emergency room. I could not believe this was happening again. So she was really scared but I stayed with her they strapped her onto the gurney and we drove 25 minutes to the hospital. Immediately we had 2 nurses and a respiratory therapist and a physician’s assistant working on her. They started asking me a ton of questions while getting her changed into a gown and putting things onto her chest and finger to monitor her heart and pulse oxygen level. They gave her oral steroids, another breathing treatment and oxygen. Nothing was helping her oxygen level kept going to 88% and 90%. They told me we would probably have to stay the night. They gave her chest x-ray, started an IV line and drew blood. They also shoved 2 small things up each nostril to check for influenza and then to test for RSV they had to shoot saline up each nostril and shove a tube 3 in. long up each side and suck out her mucus to be able to test her. She was screaming and fighting with us to get everything done. By the time they finished all the tests it had been a couple of hours and she was exhausted from all the crying. She fell asleep on me in the bed and slept for an hour. I felt horrible for everything she was being put through and was hoping we could go home, that's all she wanted to do was go home.