Home at last!

At the hospital this morning we saw yet another doctor and this one felt that if I was comfortable taking care of Logan at home, he would let us go. So, Logan is on oxygen 24 hours a day at home. My job will be to monitor is O2 and hopefully wean him off of it slowly. I am so glad that we didn't have to wait for him to go through the day time without it. I think that would have kept us in the hospital most of next week.
Finally, I can post some new pictures!
SO glad to be home!! Logan's smile as I was loading him into our van was priceless!

Logan cozy at home.

Really Bad Timing

This morning I got a call from Children's Hospital in Milwaukee saying they could get Logan in tomorrow for his ABR hearing test!! We actually made it to the top of the cancelation list and I had to say no! Of course he couldn't go because he is sick...but for this test he has to be perfectly healthy with no fluid in his ears. Now I have to hope that his ear infection clears up fast and he gets better before they call again....if that even happens. We are scheduled for April.

This morning the doctor said Logan has to be off oxygen completely for 12 hours before we can go home. He is still on it right now. :(

Day 5: Not much improvement

Logan's oxygen was lowered yesterday, but when night came he ran a fever and couldn't stop coughing. By morning his O2 needed to be raised up again and they have started deep suctioning him every 4 hours again. He now also has an ear infection.
Again today, when he had just had all his meds and had been suctioned, he was pretty happy and he played for a couple of hours. Hopefully the suctioning will stop his cough tonight and he will get a good nights sleep.
Please pray that we are home by this weekend.

Day 4: Still on oxygen

Last night and this morning Logan's oxygen had to be turned up pretty high, but tonight, thankfully, they are starting to bring it back down. He still needs it all of the time, but he has only needed to be suctioned once today!!! What a relief! I couldn't take much more of that. Also, we both slept much better last night because his O2 alarm didn't go off at all (because they had the O2 cranked up). The doctors are currently keeping a close eye on his ears because he has had a lot of drainage out of one and even some blood has been coming out.
The good news is that Logan was awake AND happy for a few hours today in the middle of the day! He even played a little and I finally got a couple of smiles (it had been way too long). I hope that was a sign that the worst is over.
Still no talk about when we will go home.

Longer Hospital Stay

Logan is getting worse, so we will be at the hospital for atleast a couple more days. He is on oxygen all of the time now and is needing to be suctioned every few hours, and the suctioning isn't getting any easier to watch. He just seems even more miserable now and he's either sleeping or crying. I haven't gotten much sleep with his oxygen alarm going off all of the time, but tonight they plan on keeping him more comfortable with more oxygen so hopefully we will both sleep well for the first time since last Thursday!

Logan: Hospital Update

We are still here...the doctors think that Logan has not reached the peak of the RSV yet since he only started showing symptoms on Thursday night. He didn't need oxygen last night and his fever is gone, but he is really working hard to breath today. They suctioned his nose and throat by sticking a tube all the way down his throat through his nose (horrible thing to watch) and we will see if that helps him be able to eat and breath more easily. He is also more weezy today. I think they may be right about this getting worse...and I would hate to go all the way home and have to come all the way back.

Edit: We are going to be here tonight...they will evaluate him tomorrow at 8am.

Logan is in the hospital...

...for the second time. Logan had a couple of scary nights and I just couldn't watch him being so uncomfortable anymore. So I took him in this morning and he tested positive for RSV. He was having trouble breathing, had a bad cough and a temp of 104.5. We will be here, at the hospital, for atleast one night or until his oxygen levels are better. They have been dipping into the eighties off and on and this we during the day today, so they may go lower tonight, when RSV can get worse. His ped said that RSV peaks the 5th day or so and tonight will only be the 3rd night. I am just SO glad to not have to worry about him turning blue in the middle of the night. Now we have machines and nurses for that.

Scratch that last post!!!

They called me back...and we got moved up to Tuesday!!! The scheduler did not realize that she was talking to the Logan who the ENT doctor wanted to see as soon as possible. He wants us to come down soon not because of the hearing loss, but because of his possible airway obstruction. So finally, we may get the breathing stuff figured out.
I feel MUCH better now!

First Hospital Stay

Wednesday night, Logan went to bed and only minutes later he started to make really scary sounds when he breathed in and out. I thought maybe he was just stuffy, which he usually is and I went to bed, but couldn't sleep. I just laid there worrying about what was happening. Soon he was crying and coughing and gasping for air. We always have a humidifier running, but that wasn't working so we went in the bathroom and ran the shower. The steam didn't help much, but Logan eventually settled down and fell back asleep. He continued to make loud sounds in his sleep so I just sat up watching him. Over the next few hours he woke up a couple more times crying, coughing and gasping for air. I got on the phone with a nurse and described what was happening and she thought right away that it was croup. His barking cough and loud breathing (it sounded to me like a honking goose) gave it away. She told me that the croup comes at night and we should keep doing what we were doing until morning, then I should bring him in to his pediatrician. I also needed to watch him and make sure he wasn't turning blue (great way to help me relax), or then I would need to go to the ER. At about 5am he started running a fever (which was not supposed to happen with croup) of about 102-103...I called again and they said he would be ok until his 11am appointment, but that I could take him to the ER if I didn't want to wait. Well, we waited and when we got to his appointment they tried to treat him, but it didn't help. He had develop stridor (the loud sound when he was breathing and his rib cage was retracting when he was struggling to breath) which should not have been happening in the middle of the day. He also still had a 102 temp. We ended up going to the hospital and staying the night. He also had bronchitis and they even worried about pneumonia, but thankfully he did not get that. I did finally get a little sleep and Logan started responding to the treatments and medication so we were able to go home the next day. He is doing much better today. His pediatrician told us that when Logan gets sick it will always be a little more serious than an average child and he will always be a little bit more susceptible to catching illnesses.
Well, our first sickness scare turned out alright and we can just hope to keep him as healthy as possible through the rest of the cold and flu season.