My baby had pneumonia!
We are way behind on our blog. Little Evan gave us a good scare by developing pnemonia. It started out as, we think, the flu. He is prone to the croupy cough and he woke up crouping one morning and we knew he was sick. But he kept getting sicker, spiking high fevers I couldn’t get down and just so lethargic. When he saw our family doctor…
Evan got himself admitted to the hospital! I will admit I suspected it was coming, he was so sick, and I had packed a bag “just in case.” You know that old murphy’s law, I figured packing a bag and being prepared would be a sure way NOT to get sent to the hospital. Our family physician is organized with an urgent care unit so he was able to send us downstairs for labs, a chest xray, and an IV infusion. They put him on Rocephin and he was dehydrated so he needed fluids. Our doctor was borderline whether to admit Evan or send him home with us to monitor closely, then they did a blood oxygen read on him and he was at 85%. Which got him a fast ticket to the the hospital.
We did three nights at our local small town hosptial and Evan just wasn’t getting any better, they did another chest xray and his left lung was almost completely occluded. He had been on some pretty heavy duty antibiotics so to see that he had made no progress was very scary. Our family doctor then made the call to transfer us up to Dorenbecher chidlren’s hospital in Portland, he just felt like we weren’t going to receive the care we needed in our small town hosptial.
Evan and I had an ambulance ride to Portland and he was admitted to Dorenbecher. And I have to say after 3 nights in our small town hosptial Dorenbacher was like being admitted to the Hilton. The staff and facilities were wonderful. Evan ended up having surgery to drain fluid off his left lung and they removed an abcess. He had a chest tube for 2 days to drain off his lung. When they grew out the cultures from his lung he ended up having MRSA, which would explain why he didn’t get better once admitted. The antibiotics he was on don’t cover MRSA. As soon as they got him on Clindamycinwhich covers MRSA he started to improve.
We ended up doing six nights at Dorenbecher and it was a happy day when Evan was released! Nine nights in a hospital is a lot and having my baby so sick. (I know he’s almost three but he’s still my baby!) He is up and running around and seems to have recovered from his ordeal just fine. And we are just now playing catch up with our lives too!
03/22/08, 11:23 PM |
Good to have you back! Wow, how scary! So happy to hear Evan is doing well!
{{{{{HUGS}}}}}