Since we have been home from the hospital stay with the rhinovirus, Sol has caught two more viruses -_-
It has been a long few weeks, poor kiddies. First was hand foot and mouth virus, which I never saw before until the kids got it. Poor May caught it from school and with in a few days Sol was getting a nasty fever and spots all over too. The fever hit him really hard and he looked awful! worse than when he was struggling to breathe with the cold! It was really hard to keep his fever down and his heart rate was really high and he was in pain from the bumps in his mouth, it was really terrible! His fever broke the day before we were headed to get his serial casting done for his knees. Unfortunately his bumps were too bad for them to cast, they worried an emergency would come up and we wouldnt be able to get the casts off, so the doctor didn't feel comfortable casting yet. We are now looking at november 9th to try the casting, we will see.
Pretty quickly after the hand foot mouth cleared up, another cold hit both the kids. Sol is still battling that one but he is looking much better. May still had a stuffy like nose as of yesterday but shes pretty much all better from it, now we are waiting for Sol to be 100% again. He is still needing the vent most the day but the nurse from the hospital told me that we really should keep him on it up to a week after his cold is over, that way he gets the rest and builds up his strength. I think it sounds really reasonable and at least he is doing better.
I started writing this a month ago now i guess, and since then we have had even more sicknesses along with two more admissions to the hospital. One was an overnight stay, a pretty unnecessary stay actually, but because he was throwing up and had a good fever that wouldn't go away, our madison doctors wanted him to be seen just to take some tests to make sure it wasn't something really nasty. Our local hospital wouldn't see him, even though I did make an appointment that they cancelled on me with out even telling me. . . We then had to go to madisons ER to get him looked at. It was pretty annoying, and it turned out to be a stomach bug and he literally just needed to be looked at. We learned our lesson with that one and next time we will just go to neenahs childrens hospital if it is something minor like that.
The very next weekend, although, Sol caught his sisters cold that she had over thanksgiving. It started as a runny nose but by bedtime it was in his lungs, even though we had been doing our best to clear his lungs, by 1am we could no longer support him at home. We called 911 to take us to neenahs childrens hospital to wait for madison to come get him. Last time we were at the ER in waupaca, the doctor told us there wasnt anything more she could do for him so if he took a turn they wouldnt know what to do. I figured we could save them the trouble and just go to an ER that may be a little more prepared for him, and it was a good idea. He was in rough rough shape. He had pneumonia, his left lung was full! He was breathing with basically only one lung. When Madison got there to get him, they said he was too sick to transport so they needed to do some therapies and nebs to get him more stable to travel.
Thankfully he made a fast turn around, after a very aggressive treatment day, his lung looked much better, he then needed to rebuild his strength. We were there 5 days. We really needed to go home a day earlier, May was having her dental procedure where they needed to take her to the OR and put her under sedation, we were hoping to have sol home by then so we could focus on may, but that didn't work out. That ended up being a VERY full day. After may's procedure we were then able to leave the hospital. Up at 5am and leaving the hospital by 5pm. ugh. But it was great to be home.
Thankfully Sol has been feeling better for a week or so now. I am hoping beyond all hope that he will stay healthy for the rest of the year! would be nice, but at least until we are through his birthday and christmas!
Here is hoping!
