Today has been a total nightmare. It all started Friday evening, my 2 year old daughter was coughing during the night which continued Saturday but a dry cough, Saturday night she started with a fever which carried over to today, last night she started wheezing – I gave her a nebulizer treatment, didn’t help that much so I called the after hours at the doctors and they made her an appointment for this morning. We went in they gave her back to back nebulizer treatments and a steroid then sent me to get an x-ray of her lungs and then I had to go back to the doctors. The x-ray showed that she has pneumonia and a partial collapsed lung from the wheezing. They admitted her to the hospital. There they gave her oxygen which she is still on, a nebulizer treatment and another steroid.
As a mom my heart breaks to see her lethargic, poked with IV’s, needles, etc. I know it’s for her own good but she doesn’t. The hardest is that my husband is spending the night with her there because I have the 3 other children, one who gets up alot to nurse during the night plus she is asking for my husband. I do not want to sound prideful but I am her mom, don’t most kids ask for mommy when they do not feel well? So I thought the best thing was for me to come home and go back tomorrow.
The doctor said she has to be off oxygen for 24 hours before she can come home. Please pray that God opens up her air passages and her breathing regulates, for the doctors to have wisdom and for my daughter to have peace and for her to come home quickly. Also that the rest of our family does not get sick, apparently it all began with a viral infection and spiraled into pneumonia.
I appreciate your thoughts and prayers. If you do not see alot of blog posts the next few days it’s because I am with my little princess. Praise God that from this morning to when I left the hospital she was no longer lethargic and the doctor said her chest sounded much better.
Praise God!
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