Our First ER Trip

Since, well, close to his shots, Timothy has been fighting a cold. His congestion worsended by last friday. I became increasingly concerned with his health. Upon my sister's suggestion, I took Timothy to the emergency room in Salem.

We had chest xrays that came back negative for any fluid in the lungs, however, the rattle was distressing.

Conclusion: Upper respritory infection.

Saturday and Sunday, his symptons were the worst of colds, sore throat, achy. But my sister helped me by giving me a few hours to myself. I came back to the same sick little one. Along with all of these routine complaints was a refusal to eat. By Monday, he had only eaten a recorded two ounces all day. He refused to eat when I visited on my routine lunch feeding. That night, as I worked around the house, I decided he was showing too many signs of dehydration. I drove to an urgent care facility where I was turned away. They require someone younger than four months to go straight to a hospital.

Once at the hospital, we were taken up to a room where I tried to feed once again. He latched on this time and within five minutes of eating, he threw up. He was prepped to be admitted for IVs, but this hospital requested to do another set of chest xrays and they found him to have pnuemonia. His dehydration was from the original cold he acquired. Another few hours went by and we tried to feed again, thinking it was all of the coughing that aggrivated him and led to him throwing up. This time, he kept everything down. We monitored him and he seemed to do a little better.

So, with that, they sent me out the door requiring me to follow up with my doctor. We got to the grocery store and he then threw up all of what he had eaten.

We visited the doctor yesterday and we are on a regimen of one ounce of fluid force fed once an hour. So far, he has kept most of his small meals down. If he doesn't, he will have to be admitted into the hospital and monitored for several days with IVs for fluid.

I am currently off work at home force feeding the little bit I can. The medicine for his pnuemonia will be finished within four days. He has had two wet diapers and has eaten, thrown up and eaten some more. But his sore throat is almost gone and he seems anxious to feed. I believe we are on the mend.

Pnuemonia has been developing quickly from the colds going around this year in healthy adults.. We are very lucky to have caught it so early in our little man!

Signing out...