After my previous post, things started to go down hill quickly for Braiden. His breathing continued to be a problem. However, we continued giving him his nebulizer treatments, thinking his breathing would improve. Then, while sitting in the family room together Braiden's lips and fingers turned blue and he started shaking. He was crying as if he was agitated. I knew something was wrong, so we headed off to get a doctors opinion. When we arrived, Braiden's oxygen level was extremely low, he had a fever, and was wheezing pretty bad. They made the decision to keep him over night. While there we found out that Braiden had RSV for the second time. He was treated with IV fluids and strong antibiotics, nebulizer treatment, and Robitussin with codeine to help him rest. Our stay was extended a bit longer as the doctor felt Braiden would benefit from close observation. Our last night there was a difficult one for Braiden. We don't know if it was his little body reacting adversely to a medication or what, but he screamed uncontrollably from 9pm until 1am. During that time he tried pulling out his IV and wrestled with me, Dave, and the nurse. Nothing made him happy. The decision was made at that time to take the IV out and send him home to rest. Thank goodness!! We were all ready to head home to our own beds. Braiden slept with us that night. We didn't sleep much as he woke crying and then fought with us when it was time for a nebulizer treatment, which we continue having to do every 4 hours. He's doing much better. Not much can keep our tough guy down. He asked to go out today to hit a "home run" AKA, he wanted to go outside to play baseball :-) He takes after his Momma; we just don't know how to sit still!
Here are some of the pictures I took during our stay. The first few are blurry as they were with my phone.
Our sweet baby boy after having his IV put in. Let me add that he did not cry once while getting the IV put in. He's is such a strong little guy!
Worn out after a tough first night
We were allowed to take Braiden home with IV in arm to get showered and rest for a bit before heading back for another night stay. As you can tell he was pretty exhausted!
When we got home all he wanted to do was watch music videos on the computer and play with his choo-choo train :-)
He missed his toys, but was so worn out he couldn't sit up to play with them... poor baby
Back again. Hooked up to his IV and watching a DVD to stay distracted
Relaxing in the big recliner
Braiden's friends Isaiah and Alysia came over to visit Braiden once he got home. They brought him a Wow Wow Wubzy doll, which he loves and they were able to get him to take his nebulizer without fighting!
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