BOOOO to RSV

That's right...my little teeny tiny baby has RSV!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! It has not been the funnest thing! Here's her little RSV journey...

Payton had a nasty cold...cough, runny nose, irritability, diarrhea, etc., and decided that he still-much to my repeated coercing- wanted to smooch and hug (cough on and smother) his little sister that he loves SO much! It really was inevitable. So last Thursday, Morgs started coming down with her own little nasty cold. She started with the cough which is really sad! Then she lost her little voice which was probably the saddest thing that I have ever experienced! Listening to her cry was truly heartbreaking. It would barely come out as a whimper for heavens sake! This was either Thursday or Friday night...I can't remember! (That's what sleep deprivation does to you!) It didn't really get any worse, so that is why we took her to church on Sunday. She just had the stuffy nose and cough. No fever, nothin...so we took her to church! Probably our first mistake (but it won't be the last, I can assure you!) The next day, she was still about the same, maybe starting to get a little bit worse, but still no fever, so I was fine! But that night, she would NOT sleep unless someone was holding her. Poor little thing! So the next day, after trying in vain to get ahold of my pediatrician ALL DAY, I finally got her in for an appointment. The Dr. checked her, her levels were fine, she didn't have a fever, and her oxygen levels were great. She told me to call back if anything changed, or if she got worse at all. But she also asked us to sleep with her on our chest that night propped upright. Not very conducive to parental sleep, but that's alright. We wanted her to be comfortable of course. She slept fairly well, but then at about 5:00 that morning, she started to get really fussy, and I couldn't really calm her down very well. She did that throughout the morning, and then my Dr. called to check on Morgan, and I told her that she just wasn't doing so well. Really fussy, and just not happy all around. So they told me to bring her in again, and so in we went! When they checked her levels again, they were lower, and not the best that they would like to see in someone so young, so they told me that I needed to take her to the hospital. NOT something that a mother wants to hear! I didn't take it very well, and was a bit weepy. :( No one likes to see their child in pain, and have there be nothing that you can do about it! Anyways, so we checked her into the hospital and they checked her levels and decided that they should put her on oxygen because her blood oxygen level just wasn't high enough. THey also sucked the HECK out of her nose with this cool sucker-thingy (medical term for sure!) and sent a sample to the lab to check for RSV. We got her all comfortable, and they came back with the results that the RSV was POSITIVE! BOOOOO!!!! So, we had to keep her there over night just to make sure that everything was alright and that she didn't get any worse. We are SO lucky though, because it seems to be a really mild case of RSV. It never went down into her chest...just stayed up in her throat/nose area and just made her super congested and stuff. But she has had a problem keeping her blood/oxygen levels up, so that is why we had to stay the night. Her pulse/heart rate also has been pretty high so they can tell that she is having to work a little bit harder to breathe, so they sent us home with oxygen! So now here we are at home chillin with our little oxygen baby! She is so cute! We are so glad to have her home, and feel very blessed that this was as mild as it was. Here's hopin that it doesn't get any worse! I think that she is on the up and up though, so we're glad for that.

Not feelin so good:(

A little better!!! Perkier at least! (Sorry about the bright photo! I couldn't get far enough away from her to make it a good photo! I was holding her in my lap after all, and heaven forbid I get off the bed and take a good picture!)

Boy are we grateful for modern medicine that allows us to help our little babies when they need it most! Thanks for all your love/support/help as we helped our little baby girl through this! Here's to hoping that she passes all of her sleep studies/awake breathing studies so that we can head to Utah on Thursday!