2nd Trip to the Emergency Room

Yesterday was quite an eventful day!!!!!! Korbyn and I went over to hang out with Gramma Heidi and Great Gramma Jeanne while all the guys went to the Grandpa Rich's to watch the superbowl. Korbyn had been fine since we took him to the ER earlier that morning. At about 6:30 he started coughing really bad again and his face was bright red and almost turning purple he was coughing so hard and gaging. Then at a little before 7:00 i noticed that his face was getting a little red and he kind of started rolling his eyes like he was going to fall asleep but he was WIDE awake. He did this the other day when his temperature was 100.5 so we decided to take him temperature. The only thermometer that i have been able to get an accurate reading with is a pacifier-thermometer. So, Gramma Heidi gave it to him and i went in the other room to go make a bottle. I could hear her saying he had a fever from the other room so i came back in and his temp went all the way up to 101.9 and then he spit it out so it could have been even higher!!! Dr. Lane said to always bring him into the clinic or the hospital on weekends if his temp is 101 or above. So we went over to the Emergency Room AGAIN! This time the nurse that checked him into the ER said his left lung sounded crunchy. Dr. Christensen came and looked at him and did a much more thorough job at looking at him then Dr. Case did that morning. She saw that he had ear infections in both of his ears and his throat looked red too. His stomach above his ribs were sucking in like it was hard for him to breathe, his oxygen level wasnt too low but just below normal so they took his blood and put an IV in his little hand. They tried it in his right hand and it didnt work so they tried again on his left hand and got it in. Then they did an RSV swab in his nose. I thought they were just going to get it from right inside his nose but they stuck this long skinny q-tip looking thing WAY up his nose!!!!!!! Then he went for a chest X-ray. I was the only one that went in for the X-ray with him since i had to hold his little hands up for them to put this plastic tube thing around him for the picture. Then we all went back to the room and found out that they couldnt get a positive or a negative on his RSV swab so they had to get a lukey tube that basically gets shooved way up his nose with a bunch of saline drops and sucks all the mucus out of his nose. Then they sent that in and it came back positive for RSV. They did two breathing treatments with the nebulizer while we were there too (we got there at 7:00 and left at 11:30).

Poor Baby has to be on Amoxicillin for 10 days, tylenol every 4 hours, motrin every 6 hours, use a nebulizer with albuteral every 4 hours for 2-3 weeks as well as using the cool mist humidifier at night and putting saline drops in his nose and suctioning out all the gunk in his little nose.

The only good part is that he wont remember anything that happened at his little Emergency Room visits. The only way we could get him to calm down was to give him some pedialyte. He drank 6 bottles of it while we were there!!! Im sure he was happy to get some besides formula for once. Korbyn was the third baby that had come in with RSV to the Prosser Hospital that weekend. One of the others was in the room next while we were there. We are lucky that we caught it when we did though because a lot of babies (like uncle bubba when he was 6 months) have to be hospitalized for RSV and there are 3 babies in ICU at the Sunnyside Hospital with RSV right now.

This is Korbyn the morning after we got back home. Im sure he had forgotten all about the night before! The bandage is from where the IV was. Mommy had to take some sort of picture to remember his 1st...and 2nd trip to the Emergency Room and first illness.