Pneumonia- Blake

Well last week was pretty rough. You see Blake was diagnosed with RSV in late January. Since then he has had a lingering cough and congestion (totally normal). Well on Friday, February 27th Blake started showing more symptoms of RSV and ended up getting and ended up getting a fever that night. So on Saturday we took him to our pediatricians urgent care they have on Saturdays.  She thought he seemed ok, but did have a small ear infection. The rest of Saturday and Sunday he didn't have a fever anymore and started to see like he felt better. Then Sunday around 5:30, I tried to give him a pumped bottle and he just didn't seem interested in eating. I tried nursing. Not interested. Ok, happens sometimes. Well then bedtime came and he was interested again. During the night I tried to nurse him and when he would eat, he would just throw it all up. During the night Sunday/Monday he got a fever as high as 102.9. So back to the doctor we went on Monday. Monday was a bad day. He was throwing up anything I tried to get him to eat. He was pretty much inconsolable. Unless he was sleeping, he was screaming crying.

At the doctor they could tell he didn't look good. Mostly I was worried because he hadn't eaten in almost 20 hours really. They checked him out and did tests and really couldn't figure out what was going on with him. But he wasn't eating and he was not a happy camper. So she told me if he didn't start eating that afternoon I was going to have to take him to the Childrens ER to get hooked up to IV fluids.

To make matters worse. Kevin was headed to the airport while I was at the doctors to head out of town to Portland for work. He didn't know whether to go or stay. It was a big deal for him to go and he needed to go. But he also wasn't going to go if we had to take Blake to the ER. We just didn't know yet if it was going to come to that. After much going back and forth, Kevin was at the gate at the airport and decided not to get on the plane and headed back home. I meanwhile went and picked Carter up from school. We got home and I tried to feed Blake again and no luck. So off to the ER we went.

Thankfully there is a new Childrens ER at North Austin Medical Center (Austin friends, you must go there)! And there was no one there so we got right back. We went back and got check out. After finally doing a chest x-ray they determined he has pneumonia. Not something you want to hear about your almost 4 month old. They said he was going to be admitted to the hospital for at least a couple of days. Our friends, Sarah and Chad were amazing and literally got off their flight back into town and came by the hospital to take Carter home and put him to bed until my mom got here from Dallas.

We were admitted to the hospital on Monday night and weren't discharged until Thursday late morning. It was rough. I broke down Monday night because I was scared for my son. He's so young and helpless, but I knew he could get through it. My mom took Carter back to Dallas with her on Tuesday and Kevin and I stayed in the hospital with Blake. We only had a single bed and chair, so we swapped off sleeping on the bed and the chair. Fun times. Not much sleep with a child that was so restless and irritable. But anything to be there for Blake.

On top of all this, that coming weekend, Kevin's sister Heather was getting married and we were suppose to be heading to Dallas that Thursday. So once we were discharged Thursday, we came home for maybe 2 hours and turned around headed up there.

We had some ups and downs after the hospital but the biggest issue was to keep Blake eating and we had a hard time with that at first. But thankfully he pulled through. He's a tough boy and it was so great once he started to feel better to see that sweet smile of his. It made me one thankful momma.

God is good. We thank everyone that was thinking and praying for Blake. It meant so much. Monday we had a follow up appt and our pediatrician said Blake looked like a completely different baby than he was a week ago.