Sunday, December 20, 2009

Madelyn has RSV!

My baby girl in the hospital with bronchitis and rsv. Doesn't she look pitiful? I have to admit though, she looked so cute in that hospital gown. I hated that i.v. on her arm too, she didn't like it at all. She kept hitting it on everything and sometimes she would just look at it and start crying. It was so sad!
She couldn't stand the wires so of course she was constantly pulling at them, and even succeeded a few times. One of the nurses even told me one time, "You're going to have to watch her better." She had just pulled the wire off her foot again. I thought, lady I have been up here by myself watching her every second for a day now. I wanted to pull the wires off too by that point. You can't seriously expect an 8 month old not to pull on her wires at all! I really was doing my best.


Madelyn has been so congested lately. I have taken her to the doctor for it several times lately. I took her two weeks ago and they said she just had a little cold. Well, her cold never got better so I took her back on Wednesday at 2:30. They said she then had bronchitis and they sent me over to the hospital to test her for rsv. Sure enough, she tested positive and they admitted her right away. What a nightmare!!! It was so scary to watch her like that, and so hard to not be able to do anything to make her feel better. Brian stayed home with Bryson both nights so I was with her in the hospital both nights by myself. That was so hard! We got to come home on Friday and I have been giving her breathing treatments every 4 to 6 hours since then and she takes a steroid every day. She seems like she might be feeling better during the days, but the nights are still terrible. She isn't sleeping more than about an hour at a time without waking up coughing or crying. The albuterol in her breathing treatments hypes her up and so even in her sleep, she is moaning and groaning and moving all around. Please pray for my baby to get better soon!