Third Time's A Charm

Yeah, we dodged a bullet today! At about 4:00am Devon finally left the room to sleep in the guest room, and I took over Jordan miserable, hacking, barfing, sneezing, eyewatering, agony duty. By 05:15 I was all packed (for 4 days, with books & my computer), and headed to the hospital.

But, after 3 hours (and about 7 minutes total face time, but that's a whole different story), Jordan & I got to come home. She has a left ear infection, not too bad, an upper respiratory infection, and pneumonia, which could possibly be aspirated mucuous, but because of the other infections were going to treat it like pneumonia, just to be safe (and by default). She also got a Rocefin shot, and then they sent us home. She had some low grade fevers over the last couple of days, and obviously a horrible cough, but when hooked up to the pulse-ox, it showed that she was getting plenty of oxygen. YEAH! This, and this alone kept us out of the hospital, because if she can get enough oxygen on her own, we can take care of the rest.

A mid-morning follow-with our regular pediatrician brought at least one good change, too. A switch from Zantac to Prevasid (or Prilosec, whichever the insurance will cover), should finally take the reflux variable out of the equation. I've asked the gastroenterologist 3 times to change it, but he wouldn't, and basically ignored my concerns about reflux playing a bigger role in her barfing. But, he didn't think it was an issue. Thank goodness our topnotch pediatrician is on top of things (her idea to switch, not mine)!

Man, it's brutal, as soon as we get all ironed out from one trip to the hospital, the next one falls in line. Luckily the stays are getting shorter & shorter. But somehow, it always seems to mess up my most recently established "good" sleeping pattern, this time included.