Luke had a cold and was sounding terrible, and I was up with him all night trying to get him to sleep. At 6:30 am he started retracting at his neck and under his rib cage every time he took a breath, so he and I went to the ER. They couldn't get it to stop, so we were admitted. Unluckily for us, there weren't any peds beds open, so we had to ride the ambulance to another hospital -- his second ambulance trip in his short life.
He was so exhausted from working so hard to breathe, he just kept falling asleep. He was extremely dehydrated from all the hard work, so it took them 5 tries to finally get an IV in. It took a couple days of breathing treatments, oxygen, antibiotics, and steroids to get his lungs to bounce back enough for us to go home -- but we still had to continue oxygen at night for a few days. He was diagnosed with asthma -- which seems to be triggered by colds, plus we had red air alerts from fires at the same time, which I'm sure aggravated it. Having a newly-walking one year old stuck in a bed covered with wires and tubes was definitely not a fun experience, but so relieved he's okay and we know what's going on so we can hopefully prevent this in the future.
Aug 21-23, 2015
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