Entry for March 10, 2006 Sunshine's trip to the hospital

Entry for March 10, 2006 Sunshine's trip to the hospital
As many of you may know, Sunshine and I spent a 6 days in the hospital. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen in my whole life. He was hooked up to a Blood Oxygen machine, an IV and Oxygen. It all started two weeks ago when I picked him up at daycare and he had a little something in his eye. Later that night he had green goop pouring out of his eyes. we took him to the doctor and Dr. S. said that he had an upper resp. infection and pink eye. That night he started running a fever and Saturday he started a cough. Monday he was too sick to take to daycare, Tuesday I took him in the morning and went picked him up early to take him to the doctor. Dr. H said did a culture and an x-ray. He had strep, so she gave him a penicillin shot. He didn't like that at all. She also put him back on all his asthma meds. Wednesday, he went and played a little, but his fever never broke. Wed. night we slept on the couch because duck was sick also and I didn't want little man and I to wake up everytime Duck coughed during the night. He woke up at about 1:30 and I gave him some medicine and a breathing treatment. He then stopped breathing as if he had forgotten. I placed my hand on his stomach and said his name. A couple of hours later Duck got up ant went to work, shortly there after I called a special friend and she advised that I call the doctor. They returned my call and said that it didn't sound life threatening and to wait until the office opened to come in. He stopped breathing again and I decided to run him into the ER. They did a blood ox level which came back low. They insisted that it was a machine malunction. They gave him IV fluids and told me to follow up with his doc Fri if he wasn't any better. Friday morning, I called and got an appt with Dr. G, his assigned doc, once there Dr. G was understanding the error of taking him off all his meds 6 weeks earlier. He said that we were going to give him a breathing treatment in the office and if it didn't work then we would have to have him admitted. He had a orapred treatment, and the doc said that he sounded better. He said one of two things were going to happen, he'd either be better or the same at which time I'd have to call the on call doc an have him admitted. At about 5:30 he got worse so, I had the doc on call paged. He said to take him in. They put in a IV and drew blood. They decided that he needed to be admitted and then the doc on call came in shortly after that and set him at breathing treatments every 3 hours. They then put him on a bunch different meds and during the night his ox level dropped below 87 and they had to put him on oxygen. They finally we able to reduce the oxygen over time and they were finally able to let him go home Thursday early afternoon. They did so many things to him to him over the week, but it was MISERABLE. Well I need to get up and get Mr. Man his meds. Thanks to everyone who called and kept me sane.
Love,
Bug