Christian turned five months old on January 2nd, 2008. Unfortunately, he had to spend it in the hospital at Community North. He started out with a cold several weeks ago that just kept getting worse. After numerous trips to the Immediate Care Center and the doctors office the past couple of weeks, we finally had to take him to the ER on Tuesday late afternoon. We could tell that we was having a very hard time breathing and was starting to get a fever (which if these came up we were told by the doctor to take him to the hospital). After some time in the ER, they decided to admit him to the Pediatric Unit. He had to have breathing treatments every two hours, oxygen and a steroid. His little lungs were so full and tight that he could not cough it up. The diagnosis was that he had broncholitis and restrictive airway disease (maybe, which is asthma). He finally was able to keep is oxygen levels above 95 on his own and able to go every four hours without a breathing treatment. Once he did that, we got to go home on Friday. I stayed with him in the evenings, all night and most of the morning. Todd then stayed with him all day until I got back there. We are so thankful for all your thoughts and prayers for our little man.
This is when he just had a cold. Look close at his nose and you will see a bubble when he sneezed. I know he will be mad at us one day for this picture but I think it is cute!
Here is our little man asleep in his crib at the hospital with his new favorite toy Santa brought him. My heart just goes out to him....
Christian is getting his mommy love..... We were able to hold him and play with him anytime we wanted. They also had an activity seat for him to play in. Which of course he loved....
Christian is getting better each day and we go to his pediatrician on Monday for a check up and look into the restrictive airway disease and see what we need to do to see if he truly has it or not. Wish us luck!!!
