Hospitals Are No Fun

We had quite the scare this week. Kaylee had had a runny nose over the weekend but didn't seem super sick and she went to bed on Sunday night with no problems.  She woke up around 12:30 screaming bloody murder and it took us almost an hour to calm her down.  During the night we would get her calmed down and she would wake up 20 mins or so later, still screaming.  As the night went on, her breathing kept getting worse and it almost sounded like she was hyperventilating at one point. We called the Urgent Care hotline to find out what to do and they told us to take her to the Emergency Room.  They told us that she had pneumonia and were going to transfer her to the Children's Hospital here so Kaylee got to take a ride in an ambulance. I wish I could get the picture Richard took on his phone on here so you could see the saddest picture in the whole world.  If you can just picture our sweet little girl strapped to this huge gurney with an oxygen mask on her face, IV in her hand, and the saddest look in the world, you will understand why it broke our hearts!  We got to the Children's Hospital and waited in the ER for a long time before we were able to be admitted to the hospital. Their radiologists looked at her chest x-ray and told us that it wasn't pneumonia but bronchiolitis instead (which, as I understand it, is just a general term for any kind of inflammation in the lungs). The reason she couldn't breathe is because she has asthma and I guess this was our first experience with an asthma attack.  This was the scariest experience in my life and I'm so glad she is ok!  Richard asked the ER nurses if we had waited too long to bring her in and they said "it's hard to say but if you would have waited much longer she would have just passed out from lack of oxygen"!!!! Not something I really want to hear as a mom but at least we got her to the hospital in time.  It was really hard to watch my baby girl have to go through all of this . The first day she was really dehydrated and lethargic and just wanted to sleep in our arms.  They kept her overnight on Monday night and she was feeling much better the next day.  In fact Tuesday was a much harder day in the hospital because she was feeling better and her medicine made her kind of hyper so she was bouncing off the walls!  To make a long story short, we were able to go home Tuesday night and have just been keeping an eye on her breathing. I hope we never have to go through another experience like that again! 

My sad sick little girl

Finally able to get some sleep in her "cage"

Feeling much better and starting to get a little crazy

Getting a fun wagon ride on our way down to the car (isn't that so cute?  They give the kids wagon rides instead of making them go down in a wheelchair!)

We are so happy to be home again and that our little girl is safe. Thanks to all of our AMAZING friends who helped us out with McKenna.  We couldn't have done this without you!