So today was the first day since being home from New Orleans and Carolina getting better, that we decided to have a day out. Figured it was better than being home since our AC croaked yesterday afternoon, letting the house get up to 90 degrees. We got it repaired this morning/lunch time, and I did not want to be here until it was fixed, and the house cooled down. Playgroup was today, first time we've made it in at least a month. So after 30 minutes at the park, Haley and I went back to her house where Tanner and Carolina just played around for a little while. Then we decided the pool would feel good, and Tanner and Carolina hadn't been swimming together in a while. We were only there for 30-45 minutes or so, and Carolina needed to poop (apparently she can't do this in a swim diaper....). Once I got her suit off, I noticed she was audibly wheezing. I watched her closely for a while, and she was definitely retracting. Off to the ER we went. I decided on the ER rather than medicine at home because she seemed to be struggling fairly bad, and I wasn't sure how long this had been going on, since her swimsuit would hide any retracting. That along with the fact that she had just recently got over the previous episode. Good thing though, when we arrived at the ER her oxygen saturation was hovering around 90% and she had a slight fever. They immediately gave her a breathing treatment, which brough her sat up to 98 %. Within 10 minutes she was back down to 93%. So we were moved right away from triage to a room. At this point I was very worried. The 2 times she's been admitted to the Pediatric ward for 3-5 days, this was what her asthma looked like when we arrived at the hospital. It would respond to treatment, but only for a very short period of time. After another treatment, they did a chest x-ray. Lo and behold she has pnemonia AGAIN. This time it's 'typical' pnemonia rather than 'atypical', which is what she had at the end of August. So she's back on antibiotics and oral steriods. Thankfully, we were not admitted to the pediatric ward even though her oxygen sat. continued to be low (92 %) when they took the monitor off for us to leave. She was in great spirits the whole time, waving at all the docs, and talking up a storm. They let us leave based on how she was acting and the fact that sometimes when a kid is in an asthma attack, their oxygen level will actually drop after a breathing treatment, because it opens up so much extra space in their lungs, that it takes a little while for them to compensate (this was new info to me, but Carolina was acting better than the times she was hospitalized, so I took it this must be what was going on with her, but we are keeping an extra sharp eye on her throughout the night). The first appointment we could get with Pulmanology was Oct.27, surely something will open up before then. This is summer, the down season for colds, I don't even want to think about fall and cold season arriving before we have her asthma under better control. I feel so bad for her, she doesn't know what's going on when all the docs. are poking and prodding at her. She always does so good, and has such a sunny desposition, she amazes me every day!
On a lighter note.....As some of you know, we tell the dogs "Go to bed", and they all race to the bedroom to try and get the 'good' spot on their bed at night. Well, tonight I guess Roxy ran into a little problem, because when we went in behind them we found Roxy sitting there at the bed, with my bra around her neck, with this "help me please" look on her face. We have no idea how she managed this, or even where my bra was that allowed her to manage this feat. All I know the dog has a weird penchant for Victoria Secret's black under garments.....(excuse the quality of the pics, they were snapped really quick, while I was shaking with laughter.....)
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