Our First Trip to the E.R.

Thursday night I thought I noticed a little wheezing from Alex. He didn't have fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and he was acting totally normal. So I put him to bed. Friday morning he was fine. Friday afternoon I picked him up from daycare and I noticed him wheezing. Friday night, I was feeding him dinner and it got worse...louder and closer together. I called the dr. and the on call nurse said "Pick your hospital because you have to bring him in." So, we picked Children's. We got there at 6:40pm Friday night. The nurse checked Alex and said she heard wheezing the first time then didn't the next time, but "hopefully the dr. will hear it." The dr. came and didn't even take out his stethoscope at first, he wanted to observe Alex's chest and belly. He noticed labored breathing. Then he checked him with the stethoscope. He heard wheezing, ordered an xray and breathing treatments.

The xray didn't show pneumonia so the dr. said he just had bronchitis. We asked if he had asthma and he said at this age they don't diagnose that and it's more of a family history diagnosis. No one in our families (that we can recall) has or has had asthma but I have horrible allergies and Patrick has horrible sinus problems, so poor Alex inherited one, if not both issues.

After the Xray, Alex fell asleep. 6pm was his bedtime and now it was after 7 and he was so tired. A lady came down to give him a breathing treatment and he did so good with it. Next, someone came to suction snot out of his nose with a high powered syringe. It was a hose hooked up to air on the wall. Alex and mommy did NOT like that. They were going to test his snot for RSV and other illnesses. The RSV test came back negative.

The dr. came back to check on him and said the breathing treatment helped so he ordered another one. They also gave him a dose of Orapred (steroid) to help with inflamation.

In addition to the bronchitis, Alex also has an ear infection and a throat infection. He's on amoxicillin for those.

We left Children's at 9:45ish and Patrick and I were starving. Neither of us had eaten since lunch....and ya'll KNOW I was starving if that's the case. So we bring his rx's to Walgreens and then go to Taco Bell for dinner. I get a large Sierra Mist and as we pull off I taste the drink and it's 90% carbonation. Yuck! Then we get to Walgreens and the girl said insurance didn't cover the rx's because his birthdate was wrong. So really long story short on that one. The girl was new and didn't notice the "RX" sign on the card. Our rx don't go through our normal company they go through a prescription company. The next day I brought in a statement from Humana with Alex's correct birthday on it and the new set of workers at Walgreens caught the error and I got a refund. Yay! But, add the rx mistake with my gross Sierra Mist and it was not a fun night.

We got home at 10:45 and were in bed by 11.

Then we had to- or I- woke up to check on Alex's breathing at 3am. He was fine, but he woke up at 4am so I had to feed him since he didn't eat a lot yesterday. Then after the crying he needed a treatment. Then he went back to bed.