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Sunday, February 05, 2006

First trip to the ER

Zachary has been fighting the cold all week. Friday night was a rough night for him. He would try coughing & his little nose/airways were just all congested up. I got scared & was worried he wouldn't be able to breath. So I headed to the ER with him at 4:37 am.....returned home at 7:05 am in the same condition we left.

They ran a bunch of different tests on him. The poor little guy was put through the ringer! They did the nasal swab to check for RSV....negative. They then took his blood to check the white cell count. That was the worst...he screamed so much while she was squeezing his little finger. That test came back in range which was good.

The last one they did was a chest X-ray. That was so hard to see him in that contraption. He had to have his little arms straight up & the thing was all tight around his body. Of course he screamed during that....which was what she wanted him to do. She took two pictures, then on the last one wasn't sure if it worked or not. So I got him all calmed down while she was reading them & said, nope I didn't get it we'll have to redo that one. So in we go again & screaming some more.

We were then done with that and so I got him calmed down & then we just sat & waited for the results. Well, he slept then! We finally got all the results back & were sent home. Just keep suctioning out his nose & give him tylenol. Which is exactly what I had been doing. So, glad it wasn't anything but yet was hoping to get something for some relief for him! Thought maybe they would do a neb treatment or even a steroid shot. But nope, nothing.

Today, Sunday, he seems to be doing better. Hoping we are on the home stretch with this cold business!

Zander still has the diarhea...I think this is day 5 now. Not sure what to do with him. He is still coughing & has the runny nose as well.

And the Groundhog saw his shadow...another 6 weeks of winter. Yeah!

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