No time for sick!!!!

Omg, yeah I am still sick.......Guess who else wanted to join in? Yep you guessed it, Rylan.

A couple days ago I spent most of the day up in Tucson taking care of my mom as she just had surgery. So Rylan got to stay home and have "man time" with dad.  He seemed to be doing great!

Around 6pm he passed out.....if any time he passes out I always want his o2 checked. His oxygen was not bad at all.....but it was lower then normal.  So we sat back and ate dinner all the while i kept an eye on him.

The only thing that came as a red flag to me was that he seemed to be breathing really fast. But he wasn't "belly breathing", when I use the term "belly breathing" im referring to when a child has a hard time breathing they will use their ab muscles to compensate.

Nothing seemed wrong, yet he was breathing fast and his heart rate was high......Steven sent me to bed and was gonna stay up and check on him...everything must have seemed fine because soon our house was fast asleep.....

Until 1am the next morning, I woke up to Rylan grunting, (another sign of troubled breathing, very creepy sounding). So I got up and checked on him, stats were still low and his heart rate still, high. Rylan needed to be changed so I asked Steven to help me out, I had to get up in a few short hours so I went back to bed and Steven (being the great dad he is) stayed up giving Rylan another treatment.  That seemed to hold him over for a couple of hours, then at 530 Rylan woke us up still grunting, so Steven and I opted to put him on some oxygen. I then I called the Pulmonologist.

I was up in Tucson again taking care of my mom, but Steven kept me in the loop.....for the most part it seemed like Rylan was doing ok.

When we saw the doctor he told us it seemed Rylan probably had a mucus plug that caused some atelectsis.....so we just need to treat until he is off the oxygen.  Ok sounds good we can do that........only now......today he has a cough.

So now that momma is able to walk.......I dont need to drive to Tucson, All I have to do is focus on healing my child.......and maybe getting some rest.

So here is to Rylan getting better and off oxygen in time for thanksgiving!