3 long days at Primary Childrens

As I sit in Aubrie's hospital room at Primary Childrens, I am thinking of how sweet and precious this little girl is in our lives. Our adventure here started with a typical cold a week ago. It started to get worse with a cough and then weezing a few days later. I didn't think too much of it since Aubrie has been constantly sick since starting daycare in November and just figured it was another cold with the unfortunate timing of getting her two bottom teeth. On Sunday evening, she started having a harder time breathing and her little chest was sinking in with each breath so I decided it can't wait and I took her to instacare. At the instacare, the doctor told us she most likely has RSV and she was nasal suctioned and given a nebulizer breathing treatment which seemed to help. At the same time she was also dx with pink eye (which I had the lucky fortune of getting too) and ear infections.

The next day I called Dr. Boud and they sent us to Primaries for further help. On Tues 6/25/13, we went to the ER and numerous doctors and respiratory therapist came in to evaluate her and they said she just had a cold with no other infections and no wheezes. I was so frustrated because earlier that morning I saw drainage coming from her ear and she has been pulling at her ears so I KNEW she had to have an infection. Also the respiratory therapist said she agreed with us that she heard weezes. The doctor was going to send us home but meanwhile I had been watching Aubrie's O2 sats and they were bouncing from 90's to low 80%  and then they dropped to the 70's for a while. A nurse came in and said she required O2 at this point and she would be admitted since she was having a hard time maintaining sats. We sat for hours waiting for a room to open up and finally in the afternoon we moved up to the inpatient floor.

4 doctors met us and assessed her all 4 agreeing that she had both pink eye and ear infections as well as weezing and wanted to moniter her and test to verify her virus. She was suctioned again and then given more breathing treatments and she was able to decrease her O2 from 2 L to .5 with no problems until she decided to take a nap and down they went again. Over night she was able to be dropped down again to .5 for a few hours until she had more trouble and back to 1 L we went. I am sure hoping to go home soon as both Jeff and I have missed a lot of  work lately and its hard to be away from home but I am greatful for the wonderful help her at Primaries.

Aubrie has been a trooper through all of this....she is quite lethargic and just wants to cuddle with mom and dad, but occasionally she gets lots of energy and is herself again. She loves having her baby doll her to play with and will sit and talk to her in her cute gibberish. She doesn't like having the canula on and constantly tries to pull it out.... I don't blame her. She also has EKG leads and another moniter hooked up to her so its a little tricky holding her or letting her play in the crib. All the nurses love little Aubrie and say she is so mature in looks and in and behavior since she is so calm.

After 3 long days, Aubrie's oxygen sats were able to stabilize and she was able to be on room air and was able to discharge without oxygen (which was a miracle since the doctors all said she will go home with it for a few weeks). We are so thankful for all the prayers in our behalf and know without the help and watchful eye of Heavenly Father things could have been a lot worse.

 The first few days, Aubrie slept almost non-stop with a few rare minutes of energy to play.
The pic below is the 2nd day when she was finally starting to feel a little better.