We are home !!!!!

2 more days in the hospital, and we could have reached the 100 day ( in total ) mark !!! Liam better not be saving 2 more days for another trip to the hospital anytime soon !!!!
Here's a quick rundown of our hospital visit....lol !!! Liam had picked up a bit of a bug somewhere along the way in the last few weeks, but after a course of antibiotics, we were pretty confident we had nipped those little cooties !!! On the 16th, Liam started getting a bit of a cough again, but I didn't think much of it until the next day. He started getting kind of raspy and a bit wheezy. Being the paranoid freak I am, I texted my most amazing friend  ( lol )to ask her what she thought. I texted her, because I knew she wouldn't make me feel like a paranoid freak, and she would tell me to do exactly what my gut was already telling me to do...take him to the ER. So, I bundled him all up, and we headed off to the hospital. I'm sure at this point Liam was thinking..."sweet, she's not putting me to bed !!"  We were seen by the Triage nurse who assessed his visit as a 3.....1 being the highest priority, 5 being the lowest.  The waiting room was FULL of people , but they took him right in to assess his breathing. I thought by some miracle we had been lucky enough to skip to the front of the line, but I should have known better !!! They gave Liam a round of ventolin, and sent us back out into the waiting room.  UGH !!! The hours passed, and soon I found out that the wait that night was around 5 or 6 hours !!!! Liam started to fall asleep, so I explained to the Triage nurse that we were just going to go home. I knew she felt bad, but there was nothing she could do at that point. At around 3 in the morning things started to take a turn for the worse...Liam had spiked a fever, his breathing was very laboured...so I decided to call this time to find out if they could see us right away . Sure enough, there was no wait, and they told us to head back. We were shown to a bed right away, and they ran some tests, gave him another round of ventolin, prescribed a puffer, and a few hours later we were sent home. I was satisfied with the care we received, and thought that this was the end to a very long couple of nights. Oh, how wrong I was..lol !!!!
By Wednesday morning, guess where we were ?!?! Yup, the ER !!!
I have to say, we encountered some pretty interesting characters over the few days in and out of the ER. There was a crazy drunk guy, who knew every nurse by name, and was later arrested and taken away . There was another crazy guy ..this one high..who absolutely lost his mind when the paramedics asked him if he had HIV or Hepatitis, and then eventually bolted when he found out "some guy" answered the phone in his room at the pay by week motel !!! I get angry when I realize these are the people that are priority 1, because they were brought in by ambulance...when there is a waiting room full of people with real medical needs waiting to be seen !!!!
Anyways...lol...Wednesday morning had us back in the ER, and Liam was really struggling to breathe, the coughing was worse, his temp was high, and I just had a funny feeling that we were dealing with RSV !!! (Respiratory Syncytial Virus , for those who aren't familiar with it ) It can be something common like a cold in adults, but for very young children , especially preemies, it can make them very sick.  He was no longer wetting diapers, and obviously that was a concern, as it was a sign that he was becoming dehydrated. He just wanted to snuggle, and sleep. Liam is a busy baby, and he has never been an overly snuggly baby, so I knew this was serious. We waited for the on call paediatrician, and within a few minutes, we were told we were going to be admitted. I was happy, I did not want to be sent home, this is where he needed to be.
After 4 unsuccessful tries at an IV, they were finally able to get one. It took A LOT of sucrose to get him to calm down. Due to RSV being highly contagious we were given our own room...nothing like a big sign on the door warning people the cooties are flying !!!!
We were taken care of so well during our stay. The nurses and doctors were amazing, and so wonderful to our family !!! We stayed at night with Liam..taking turns where possible, but it was still so exhausting. They were not happy with his oxygen levels, so unfortunately put him back on low flow. I'm pretty sure he was less than thrilled to have those nasal prongs stuck up his nose once again, but that little bit of o2 did the trick !!!
Anyways, this post has been  WAY longer than I wanted it to be.....so we are home now...with our very own ventolin machine..woohoo !!! Liam is feeling so much better, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that he will be approved for the RSV shots this year. The original answer was no, but I think this little trip to the hospital will change that to a yes !!!