Oh What A Night!

After a long night with Karson sleeping no more than an hour at a time and dealing with this from 7 pm until 11:30 pm, I called his doctor's office. I spoke with them and given that Karson is on so many meds and was fussing a lot, I was advised to take him to Rose for evaluation. At this point Karson had been up since 5:30 am slept maybe a total of 5/6 hours. Not much for a 7 month old.

Our wait at Rose wasn't long to get into an ER room. The crazy people were out there. One guy was screaming F this and F that and I want an F blanket you F nurses. This was from the other side of the ER. Poor staff! Karson was evaluated and given a breathing treatment there and checked for RSV and the flu. Both were negative. Once the respiratory therapist finished with the nasal wash at 2:30 this morning Karson was madder than mad. Then he has to sit through a breathing treatment. He finally gave into sleep after this. He slept for about 4 hours while we were in the ER. This is the most he has slept at one time in over a week. I tried to sleep some but didn't have much luck with the bed there and the crazy guy and his outbursts. The ER dr tole me Karson was already on everything he would add to the mix and that he didn't want to admit him to be with a bunch of sick kids. I agreed. We left at 6 am.

Once we got home I had to sleep. Several nights of no sleep and not being able to take a nap yesterday was hard. I slept until 7:30 ish and Bailey went to swimming with Kyle. At 8:30 I decided to room air challenge Karson and he did great. His stats were 92/93 on room air. I gave him his breathing treatment, his inhalers and oral meds. Then fed him some butternut squash. He loved it! I bet this makes his Aunt Nora happy. Before no time he will be having some of her butternut squash.

Karson napped without his oxygen for about an hour or so and then was up for some lunch - butternut squash, play time and milk. He fell asleep on my chest in our room for about 3 hours. This makes a much happier baby! His stats were 91/92 while sleeping. I hope to keep him off the oxygen all night. However we will see. Now that we have a pulse ox with an alarm, I feel much better with him off the oxygen unless he goes below 90.

This is the pray we have asked for. Thank you to everyone for your support. I hope all continues to go well and Karson gets better. We go back to Dr. Guarin tomorrow.