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!
