Life's Never-ending Adventures

Yesterday morning when I got home from work, I got the boys up and started feeding them breakfast. I noticed that Zack was breathing really fast and I could see through his pajamas that he was really working hard to breathe. Both of the boys and Aaron have had colds since Tuesday night so I figured that it was probably nothing to worry about, but after finishing feeding them, when I was getting them dressed I was starting to get worried because he was working harder than I had originally thought he was. So after some serious debating because I feel like I always overreact, I decided to take him to the doctor. When we got there they tested the oxygen levels in his blood and found that they were low and his doctor couldn't hear hardly any air movement. They gave him a breathing treatment at the office hoping that it would help, but it wasn't enough so they admitted him to the hospital. After doing a chest x-ray they found out that he has pneumonia.


He has been so good with his breathing treatments (he has to get them every 3 hours), all of the respiratory therapists that come in comment on how they've never seen a kid his age be so cooperative.


He had to go on oxygen last night because his oxygen levels were getting to low and he couldn't keep them up (he does not love the cannula). Despite the 3 hours of sleep he got last night he has periods of being very hyper. We think it's because of the medicine he gets in the breathing treatments. He loves to stand in the crib with the bars up and throw balls over the edge and watch us constantly retrieve them for him. He's also had fun playing with the bag of IV fluid and the oxygen on the wall, so many fun and new things to explore.



This afternoon as we were sitting in his room all of a sudden we heard this huge bang on the window and we thought a bird ran in to it, but no the windows were just being washed.


We found out tonight that he tested positive for enterovirus which is very uncommon to cause pneumonia, but hey since when do my boys do anything common. We were hoping to go home tomorrow, but we just had to put him back on oxygen so I'm not sure when we will be able to, but we're just grateful that he's not worse than he is and hopefully I'll be able to get more sleep tonight (2 hours for 3 days is not quite enough). Luckily we have great family and are so grateful to Mandy and Steve for watching Austin the last 2 days for us (I miss him terribly) and for the visits and phone calls we've received from everyone else. We'll try to keep you all updated when we know more.