Being sick sucks ... Christian got over croup during the Holiday's and is now sick with bronchiolitis. The way it sounds, I am sure is how it feels for him. He is such a trooper though.
It started on Tuesday (January 8, 2014) evening. We were at my Aunt's house for dinner and we noticed he just kept coughing. Chris and I were both praying that it wouldn't turn into croup. So that night we started the humidifier again. Hoping he just needed some moisture. Nope, that next morning, he started coughing, sneezing and had a running nose. So Chris watched him Wednesday and Thursday. When I got home from work on Thursday I noticed he started to run a fever. It was at 101.8. I gave him a bath and some tylenol. TRIED to get him to get some sleep, but he was just so uncomfortable it didn't happen. On Friday I stayed home with little munchkin to try and nurse him back to health. His temperature was all over the place ... 101 to 102.5 to 99.8. It was crazy. Then around 4ish or so it wouldn't go down no matter what I did. Chris woke up and said we should take him to the hospital. I changed and ran him there. We were there from 6pm to about 1am. It sucked. They took chest xrays and confirmed it wasn't RSV or the croup again. When the doc came in he said it was bronchiolitis. And that unfortunetly there just isn't much you can do about it besides breathing treatments and time. They decided to give him a steriod to stop all the mucus from building up. He wasn't eating, because everytime he ate, it would be too mucusy and he'd throw it all up.
The doc gave him the steriod and the breathing treatment and asked for us to wait for a little bit. I finally got him to sleep around 11pm and he slept until we left. It was the saddest thing to see this little tiny 6mo old on this giant kid bed with all this stuff hooked up to him. I just keep telling myself we are blessed it wasn't something more serious and are fortunate to have health insurance so the burden of running to the hospital isn't too much financially. Granted, we would have done it anyways.
Right now he is doing ok. Not 100% better, but about 50% which is an improvement. We figured this week he wouldn't make it to daycare so he's home chilling with dad. Thank goodness for loving and caring daddys.
I wanted to take a picture of him during this time, but it was just so sad seeing him all red eyed, teary, runny nose, miserable looking and not being able to do anything about it, so I really didn't want to be reminded each time I looked through my pics.
We'll keep ya posted.
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