Sicky Baby

Poor Adelaide has been really sick these past few days. We thought she got over the RSV so we stopped her breathing treatments. Well this past sunday she just made a huge 180 and stopped eating, sleeping, and she had a rather high fever. We tried to bring down her fever but despite our efforts it wasn't working. She also started to breathe fast and shallow. So we called her doctor and they said if we felt it was urgent to take her to the ER or to try and wait until Monday and bring her in for some tests. Well we decided to wait and man was that a long night. Since Adelaide was running such a high fever (102) she was just radiating heat but she wouldn't sleep by herself. She wanted to be cuddled constantly. If we didn't hold her she would just cry and scream. We tried to get her to drink anything, even koolaid, just to hydrate her. She was very pale and lethargic. She was not her normal self.
We took her to her pediatrician, Dr. Sena, monday morning after giving her a breathing treatment to help open up her lungs. He took some blood, like usual (for some reason he takes her blood every time we go in for her being sick) and came back to tell us that she had pneumonia. He told us that we could give her a shot and with that shot she should dramatically change or we could take her to the ER. So of course we gave her the shot. Well she didn't change. We called Dr. Sena and he told us to come and get her medical records and an admittance sheet for Madison Memorial Hospital. We get her records, jump in the car and put our seatbelts on, turn the wheel on the truck and we hear a huge pop sound. Well it turned out that the bolt sheered off and the tire came loose. We got  a tow truck and a friend to pick up Adelaide and I. After about 2 hours (Dr. Sena for some reason told us to get her records but they weren't ready when we went to get them....) Adelaide and I finally made it to the hospital. We got her checked in and they put an IV in right away. After a few minutes there they moved us up to a room of our own. Ever since then the nurses and Dr. Zollinger have been trying to get her lungs clear and fever down. We have been in the hospital since Monday and we're hoping to go home tomorrow. Adelaide is now doing better, her lungs are getting clear and she is sleeping and eating little by little each day. She keeps getting a fever at night which is their concern. Hopefully we can keep that down and get her home.

Meanwhile we are falling behind in school. I have been trying to do some work here and there while Adelaide sleeps but its difficult when people come in to give her medication and check her. We have emailed all of our professors and told them what was going on so hopefully they will be a little lenient on us. (: Until next time...