We rushed Max to the hospital late last night after discovering that he has "pretty substantial" pneumonia in both lungs at our urgent care visit. The doctor panicked and called an ambulance after he saw the x-rays, but the nurse convinced him to cancel it and let me drive him myself to avoid the hassle. Apparently the hospital is brimming over with pediatric pneumonia patients, as we were in the hospital for almost a full 24 hours before he was even checked by a doctor. They told me he was "low priority" compared to the other patients.
I got about five minutes of sleep last night, as Max kept pulling out his oxygen tube in his sleep. His oxygen sat. dropped each time and his machine started beeping and flashing. I spent the whole night making sure he didn't pull out his IV or oxygen tube, it was awesome. Especially since the night before last I only got two hours of sleep because Ava was up all night with the stomach flu. Double awesome.
A room in the peds wing finally opened up late this afternoon and we were able to get out of the loud, cramped ER. Max has been a total trooper. Even with all the blood draws, IV insertion, tubes up his nose, etc. He has been so calm and well behaved. He only shed two small tears when his IV got clogged with blood and they had to backwash it.
Feeling very grateful for helpful family and friends, modern medicine, and pateint nurses. We are stuck here until he gets a little better and can go without oxygen/fluids. Hopefully we will both get at least a little bit of sleep tonight. Fingers are crossed.
4 comments:
Wow Mary Ann. All of our best wishes your way.
So scary! I hope he gets better quickly!
Hope Max and Ava get feeling better. Your kids are lucky to have such a wonderful and loving mom!
Thanks for the update, MA. We'll keep Max in our prayers.
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