Wednesday, February 27, 2008

RSV Nightmare

We spent two nights with Zach at the hospital Sunday & Monday. He had a cough and congestion since last tuesday but sunday morning he was throwing up all his feedings and his breathing had gotten worse. We took him to church for his blessing and then later at my moms after pictures and dinner his breathing had gotten a lot worse so we took him to the emergency room. I was a wreck. We waited 45 min and finally a nurse looked at him to assess the level of emergency. When they saw his oxygen level was low and how bad his chest was sucking in the got us back immediately. The nurse put oxygen tubes in his nose and he freaked out, I have never seen a baby so upset so I started bawling because I didn't know how to help him. Finally Travis just took it out and they gave us a hose with a cup hooked to it that we held by his mouth. He tested positive for RSV so they took him for a chest xray which after going with Kendall when she was 4 months I opted not to go watch him be put in the torture contraption. The xray showed he had pneumonia as well and they decided to admit him. He was put on oxygen for the first night which helped alot. They took him off the oxygen the next morning to see how he tolerated it and he did well so they left him off for as long as he tolerated it and by the next morning he had gone 24 hours off oxygen so they let him go home. Neither of us slept well. I feel like a walking zombie. He needs to sleep so bad but he is just constantly agitated, he will sleep for a little while and then cough and cry and I will rock him back to sleep. It is an endless cycle. The second night at the hospital he cried straight from 6- midnight and by about 10pm I was crying with him because I couldnt do anything. He was comfort nursing all night and finally after 3 hours of constant feeding and crying he threw up all of the milk all over me and his blanket. We were soaked. I was just sucked dry and he was still wanting to nurse. I just broke down. I was a blubbering fool and I was crying to the nurse, oh my goodness I was such a mess. When he finally fell asleep I was so relieved.
Anyway I hope this post makes some sense because I have not had a lot of sleep the last few nights.
Zach is doing better. His cough sounds terrible, and he still has raspy breathing but they are better. We are holing up in the house for a while. I can't believe he has slept long enough to make this post. Hopefully I can get another post with pictures of his blessing later today.

4 comments:

Emily Kern said...

How sad for all of you! Reese had pneumonia when he was 3 months old and I remember the torture contraption very well! I hope you all recover soon!

SKH said...

I feel so bad for him and for you. I hate when you cant help such helpless little babies. I hope he gets better soon and that you girls don't get it. If only I lived up there and could come get them for the day. I can't wait for the post of his blessing day.

Emily Oman said...

That helpless feeling is miserable! The saddest is when they look up at you like why are you letting them do this to me?! Kennedy had RSV when she was 7 months and it wasn't that bad but she had to do treatments with this big loud machine that she hated! I hope you all get some sleep and start feeling better soon!!

Anthony and Jessica said...

I love you and Zach so much! I hope everything gets better soon, if it doesn't just have comfort that it will get better in time. Let me know if you need any sisterly love, I can be up there in 6 hours if I need to be:)