So I've already said that on Thursday, I took Lewlew to the doc and she tested positive for strep. When Friday night came, she was feeling every bit as bad as she was Thursday night. So i took her the InstaCare. They said they wanted to give her a breathing treatment, but because they were closing they didn't have time to monitor her. So they sent us to the hospital closest to my house. When we got there, they evaluated her and took a chest exray. The doc said she sounded crackely but they don't admit patients so we'd have to go down to the bigger hospital. So we got to UVRMC about midnight and they set her up with oxygen. Bret and his dad administered to her. Lewlew was so sleepy but she wouldn't go to sleep - which was a good thing because docs and nurses kept coming in. Finally at 2:00, she had an I.V. But over the next 4 hours someone came in about every 20 minutes to take her temp, give her meds, ask me a question. It was crazy! Finally about 7:00 am things settled down and we were able to sleep until about 10:00. Lewlew watched TV and just rested. We had some visitors. Grandma, Aunt Gina, Buddy and Noodle stopped by. Then Super Aunt Val, Cool Tom and Taylor stopped by. Then Nana came over. While Nana was there, we were able to have a little nap. All during the day, they kept turning her oxygen down. It started at 2 liters. Until finally she was jsut on room air. And her O2 level stayed about 95. Bret got off work and showed up about 6:30. Lewlew decided on having him stay with her that night. So I came home. Bret said she slept a lot better than she did when I was there! On Sunday am, they took another xray and at about 10:30 they said the xray looked the same as on Friday night. But she was breathing better and her o2 was staying up so they were sending her home. It was determined that she had strep and viral pneumonia. They ran a flu test on her which came back negitive.
This is before they put the I.V. in.
Noodle was quite sympathetic to Lewlew. She remember all too well what it was like. Except Noodle had bacterial pneumonia and it seemed she got over it quicker. To read about Noodle's hospital trip click here.
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that crap is sure going around. I was in the hospital last month because of asthma and Hannah had walking pheumonia....nasty stuff....hope you are all on the mend...DON't YOU GET STREP!
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