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Showing posts with label hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

Home sweet home

We are now home again from the hospital and Jocelyn is doing much better. We spent 3 nights there and came home on late Wednesday afternoon. Jocelyn received excellent care there but it sure is nice to be back in our own beds and to see that she is so much better than she was a few days ago. She still has a pretty good cough but her breathing is not nearly as laboured or "wet" sounding. She is getting back to being the happy healthy baby that we knew before!!! Here are a few photos from our hospital adventure.

One of the many nurses doing an assessment on Jocelyn.


Every few hours she received some medication through a nebulizer. She really didn't like this very much until one nurse said that she could have it with her soother in her mouth. This made life much better!

Sometimes she looked a little sad. . .

. . . but usually had a smile to follow!


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hospital stay

Right now this blog entry is coming to you via the computer in Jocelyn's hospital room. As per this time of year, kids with colds are pretty common and our 2 older kids each got one last week. (gotta be fair and make sure they each get the same!). So it was no surprise that Jocelyn began to get snotty and have some coughing too. However, with a 3 month old, this can quickly turn into something a little more serious. On Saturday her breathing began to get raspy and laboured and we decided to get her checked out. As all the clinics were already closed, I took her into emergency to get looked at. We were admitted over night and then released on Sunday afternoon because she was looking better. The little trickster had us fooled ! Monday morning she woke up much worse with lots of wheezing, raspy breathing and yucky, flemmy coughing, to the point where she was kinda scaring me. So, back to the hospital we went. They admitted her again and are watching her quite closely.

We are receiving great care here and we will for sure be here for another night yet. She is getting better but still has a lot of gunk in her lungs. Her official diagnosis is RSV and bronchiolitis. So far she has been a real trooper and has remained her happy little self. (I am managing to stay fairly stable too!) It has been a HUGE blessing that my mom was here to visit as she is able to be at home to care for the other two kids. That is a big stressor off of me!

I don't have my camera here with me or I would post a picture of her in her little 'cage crib' in the hospital! I will update this if anything else changes. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!