What an eventful weekend we had and by eventful, unfortunately I do not me all "fun" events. Zane came down with a croup sort of cough last Thursday, so we started the inhalers and such like we are supposed to. By Saturday evening he was a lot worse, non-stop coughing, fever, rapid breathing etc. We managed to have a little fun on Saturday before he got really bad and headed to the Woodland Park Zoo for Mom & Me, but because the little guy wasn't doing so hot, we only stayed about 45 mins.
After the zoo, we headed home where things progressively got worse for him. We started counting his breadths per minute and he was between 51-55 and normal for his age is 30-40. He finally fell asleep around 7 p.m. I called the consulting nurse who advised us to take him into urgent care due to his symptoms and due to the fact they
always tell you to take them in because what kind of triage can they really do over the phone??!!! I went up to check on Zane again and he seemed to be doing much better, his breadths were down to 40 and he wasn't coughing as much, so I opted not to take him. Josh insisted that we do because it was "better safe than sorry" and I agreed. So we headed to urgent care. Here we were for the next 6 hours, oh what fun!
Of course after we got to UC he was still a lot better...no temp, not a lot of coughing and breathing normal. I was almost embarrassed that we were there. By the time we got admitted into one of their rooms, he again had taken a turn for the worse which made me less embarrassed for being there. They checked his temp and he was at 103 and breathing rapidly again, very listless. We did 2 nebulizer treatments on him and he enjoyed a popsicle to try and lower that fever! He didn't enjoy the breathing tx too much, but sure enjoyed the popsicle treat! The doc then ordered a chest x-ray where it was discovered that he has "very impressive" pneumonia ("very impressive" per the doc, I'd never call pneumonia "impressive"). I was shocked. He just had pneumonia a month or so ago and these were
not the same symptoms as last time. The doc wanted to keep Zane all night for observation (it was already midnight at this point). I fought that and said we really just wanted to go home. She said that should be ok, but they wanted to give him a couple injections of some antibiotic first and observe that he has no reactions from that and then we can head home. He got the injections around 1:15 a.m. and after going to pharmacy to pick up his oral meds and getting checked out, we were home by about 2:30 a.m. Happy Mother's Day to me!!
Josh and I were supposed to go to The Sounders game on Sunday, but those plans quickly changed when Zane started to throw up his oral meds Sunday morning. So we stayed home with the little guy where he slept almost all day and wouldn't let me put him down for 2 seconds to even go to the bathroom. We can't get him to eat anything, so its a challenge to keep his meds down. We were able to keep 2 doses down yesterday and am hoping more doses today. The fever fluctuated between 100-101 yesterday, so that was better than the day before. Today (Monday), I have taken the day off because we need to follow up with his regular pediatrician and of course he can't go to daycare feeling this ill. Now, I'm just waiting for 8 a.m., so I can call for an appt!
