A Spooky Sunday

Audrey sacked out on the ride home from the doctor's office this afternoon.

I woke up to find Audrey struggling with her chest pulling in and out sharply, we call it retracting, and she was coughing a lot and seemed to be wheezing.  We hurried her in to see the pediatrician because that is something we've learned not to take lightly--I just have to say, as much as we love the Sabbath Day of rest, we are so incredibly thankful to the wonderful doctors who are willing to come in and help our sweet children in an emergency, even on their Sabbath.  The doctor saw the wheezing and retracting in the chest that we'd been seeing, but thankfully her oxygen saturation remains high--something we don't have the equipment to check at home. The pediatrician prescribed albuterol but Audrey was too upset by the mask/blow by apparatus to accept it--they likely remind her of the propophyl mask that puts her to sleep in the operating room; I wonder if Versed before going in on Friday could have prevented this problem of her terror about the nebulizer now. So sad, she had also done the same thing with the oxygen mask in the post operative unit, threw the biggest angry fit wanting that thing far away from her face.  Her terror was so bad in the post-op recovery room that they actually gave her a dose of Fentinel to calm her down on Friday. For now we will try to manage without the nebulizer mask and maybe try to get an inhaler version in the morning. She was also saying her ear hurt this morning and sure enough there was an infection; drainage from that alone could be a big part of the cough. The doctor was concerned about the wheezing/rocking chest and said to watch her temperature the next couple of days, as a spike would probably mean pneumonia given her other symptoms, but thankfully her temp remains normal tonight. It's so crazy how things that are simple with our other children we've learned to take so seriously with her, coughs especially, but they have just given us too much trouble in the past four us to take them lightly. Feeling very thankful she is home tonight with us and resting in her own bed, not in the hospital or even needing oxygen. Her cough and gagging interrupt her sleep every little bit, so this could be a long night, but all things considered it's a lot more peaceful night than I'd feared. Thank you so much for your love and concern!