James_Dean
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Well, it's been an interesting couple of days. I left for a business trip to Atlanta on Monday morning at 3:30 am. When I left my two year old had developed a runny nose - no problem, right? Just a little cold. My wife then called me at 2:00pm yesterday that our 6 month old was being admitted to the hospital and was in respiratory distress and the two year old had started to vomit and was running a severe temperature. I jumped a plane in Atlanta at 6:00 to Houston and made it back to Omaha at 11:30pm last night. Then a three hour drive in fog to the hospital. I learned that both boys had an active RSV infection and that the two year old had bronchitis and ear infections all secondary to the RSV infection.
When my wife brought the six month old to the hospital his pulse-ox was in the mid 80's - I'm not sure how bad that is, but he was obviously having trouble breathing. When they got him on the ox it went back up to 100%. They are giving him breathing therapy as well, whatever that is.
So I'm taking care of the older two and my wife is still with the baby in the hospital - likely for another day or two. Poor kid looked terrible - IV in one hand, the cannula taped to his face, pulse-ox on his toe, he has not eaten in 30 hours now. This is our first hospital admission for any of the kids, we've haven't even been to the emergency room. My wife is a bit traumatized
When I got home last night around 2:00am I sat the two year old's room and read some POA posts and made sure he was sleeping and breathing well. I went to bed around 3:30 - finally some sleep! James had other plans. He came into my bedroom around 5:00am and proceeded to vomit on me. We've all been awake since and just got done with homemade waffles. I'm sitting here asking myself, what's next?
Anyone have any advice? Sorry if none of this makes sense - I'm a little zonked. And I still say having kids is great - most ot the time.
James Dean
When my wife brought the six month old to the hospital his pulse-ox was in the mid 80's - I'm not sure how bad that is, but he was obviously having trouble breathing. When they got him on the ox it went back up to 100%. They are giving him breathing therapy as well, whatever that is.
So I'm taking care of the older two and my wife is still with the baby in the hospital - likely for another day or two. Poor kid looked terrible - IV in one hand, the cannula taped to his face, pulse-ox on his toe, he has not eaten in 30 hours now. This is our first hospital admission for any of the kids, we've haven't even been to the emergency room. My wife is a bit traumatized
When I got home last night around 2:00am I sat the two year old's room and read some POA posts and made sure he was sleeping and breathing well. I went to bed around 3:30 - finally some sleep! James had other plans. He came into my bedroom around 5:00am and proceeded to vomit on me. We've all been awake since and just got done with homemade waffles. I'm sitting here asking myself, what's next?
Anyone have any advice? Sorry if none of this makes sense - I'm a little zonked. And I still say having kids is great - most ot the time.
James Dean