Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Rough Weekend

We had a pretty rough weekend. It all started Friday when I took Landon to the doctor because he came down with a cough, but was totally acting normal and happy. Turns out that Landon had bronchitis and his doctor said that a nebulizer would be delivered to our home later on that afternoon. When I called the company they told me it would be delivered by 9pm. When 9:30pm rolled around and we still haven't heard from anyone, I called and the driver said he didn't know about our delivery! He apologized and promised we'd have it the next morning by 9am. Well, surprise, surprise, 9am on Saturday morning came and went, still no nebulizer. I was getting worried because Landon was totally lethargic, clingy, fussy and had no appetite and on top of that, sounded like he was having trouble breathing. To make a long story short, I called the doctor on call at his pediatricians office only to have a doctor who doesn't even work in the same office, call me back 3 hours later only to tell me that I need to take Landon to the ER. And the stupid nebulizer didn't arrive until 1pm Saturday afternoon!
After almost 7 long hours in the ER, we were finally moved up to CHOC and into a room. Landon's temperature spiked to 103.5 and was miserable. they gave him breathing treatments every 4 hours. We had a miserable time in the hospital. We were moved in to different rooms 3 times and even shared a room with a 6 week old baby that had RSV! We were furious with the hospital and they eventually moved the baby out of our room after 1 night. Thank goodness Landon tested negative for RSV. We ended up staying at CHOC from Saturday thru Tuesday. We're all glad to be home. Landon is eating better and acting more like himself. He's still pretty sick, but feeling a little bit better. We are going back to his doctor tomorrow afternoon for a check up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything looks better. I'll keep everyone posted.

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