just a little scare and a hospital stay

Well we should feel lucky that we've gone 7 years

without an ER visit with Mason!!! When I got

home Sunday night (May 4th) he was asleep and

sounded horrible, like he couldn't breathe very well.

Monday morning he sounded fine and felt like going to 

school so I sent him. I got a call around noon that he

didn't feel very well and the nurse knew something was

wrong because he never comes into the office.

When I picked him up he just started crying because

he wanted to stay at school. He was all worked up

and couldn't breathe very well. Nick was home for the 

day and I needed to see a few more patients, so he 

ran him up to the quickcare in Mesquite.

They said it was pneumonia, gave him a shot of

Roseffen and sent him home with a z-pack. Mind you, 

his O2 was down to 84% and it should be above 90%.

When I got home from practice, Nick took B to her

softball game. Meanwhile, Mason is throwing up and 

struggling to breath the entire 2+ hours they were gone.

So when Nick got home I told him we needed to take

him up to the ER. We got B situated at a friends house

(thanks Lee's) and headed to St. George!!!!

After a chest xray it showed no pneumonia but he

was still struggling to breath - 3-8 liters of O2 to keep

is SaO2 in the low 90's. They had to poke him 3 times for 

his IV and he was a champ thru that! After a 

breathing treatment and a steroid thru his IV they 

decided to admit him to the peds unit at the old hospital.

Mason and I took a ride in the ambulance and Nick

followed us. Finally at 3:30am we got our room and

tried to get settled in for the night. He had another 

breathing tx and seemed to be doing a little better but

needed the continuous O2.

Dr. Marsden the pediatrician came in Tuesday morning

and seemed to think it may be a viral respiratory infection.

Maybe linking it to an environmental asthma type thing

that was triggered by something over the weekend??

He wanted to keep him until he could stay above 90

on room air for 6+ hours. And continue with the 

breathing tx every 4 hours and the steroid every 10 hours.

He was able to keep his O2 above 90 from noon on into

the evening but when he started to fall asleep it would 

drop so he decided to keep him one more night!

Tuesday he had a few visitors which he was 

happy to see - Grandpa, Uncle Kasey, Grandma,

Nurse Sally, Tilman and his girls, The Lee's and 

Brooklin came up later that evening. We appreciated

all who thought of Mason by coming to visit or

sending a text! Thanks for thinking of our little guy!

I had come home with the Lee's so I could stay

with Brooklin at home and I needed to work

Wed -- I knew he'd be getting discharged Wed

morning so it worked out well.

We kept him home from school on Thursday just

to get some rest and then he was ready to go Fri!

He's done really well and it was just a freak 

thing that happened - this kid is so active and has 

never had any asthma symptoms. His allergies bother

him during the spring season but this is a healthy kid.

We are so thankful he has recovered and is back to himself.

It was so sad seeing him struggling so much to breathe

but he cooperated with all the nurses, doctors and therapists!