Last week Nick wasn't feeling great. He had been running a fever on and off the weekend before and slept a ton over the weekend so we knew something wasn't quite right. He was coughing quite a bit Monday morning, so I gave him a breathing treatment around 7 and decided to keep him out of school so I could take him to the doctor that morning. I gave him another breathing treatment around 8 and then we headed to the doc an hour later. We did 2 additional treatments in the office because he was breathing pretty rapidly and wasn't getting good O2 readings. They gave him an oral steroid, then waited a bit and did one last breathing treatment (that's a total of 5 in just a few short hours!) but it still didn't help. By this time he was jittery from all that Albuterol. Ugh. His oxygen level was hovering right around 92/93 and Dr Agolia doesn't like to let kids go unless it's at least 94, so he sent us down to the ER. We were there all of 5 min when a nurse came in and said they were going to end up admitting Nick. It turns out he had RSV, pneumonia, and a double ear infection to boot. 😢 Poor guy!
We ended up staying overnight 3 nights at Progress West (I stayed there with him) and he was on/off oxygen the whole time. All things considered, he did great. He was so brave! As you can imagine, he's been pretty clingy ever since we went through that ordeal. Hospitals can be traumatizing for a 2yo! He's definitely been a mama's boy since then. I don't mind though, I'm eating up all the extra snuggles! Love that little guy so very much and I'm happy to report he is back home and feeling much better now.
