Nov. 26, 2009 1:30pm

Wednesday morning at 5 am Evie woke up with a bad cough, she laid down on the couch and slept some more. Then she woke up with a fever of 100.3 around 10:00 am, which Tessa was able to break easily with some Tylenol and a cool bath. I promptly made a doctors appointment with Dr. John. At 1:00pm I took her to the doctor.

Dr. John noticed her “panting”. The panting had started on the way to the doctors office. She was out of breath, so he stuck the oxygen meter on her, and noticed her levels were about 85%. He said that anything below 90% means Children’s Hospital. He tried to get them to rise with a breathing treatment and oxygen, but they only went up a little, and the panting continued. So we were off to the hospital.

I stopped to pick up Tessa’s mom so that Tessa could come with us. Tessa was able to sit with her on the way up there so that she could keep her awake and monitor her. When we got to Children’s emergency room I was surprised how fast they got us in and got her hooked up. The nurse really let me have it that I didn’t call an ambulance, and that her oxygen was dangerously low. So they moved us to the asthma center.

In the asthma center they continued to give her treatment after treatment with oxygen to try and get her to slow her breathing. 5 hours later, she finally slowed and came out of her sleepiness. They informed us that she had pneumonia, and that we would be spending Thanksgiving at the hospital. They also told us that she didn’t have a whole lot of stuff in her lungs, that we caught it early. Catching it early means either we will knock it away fast, or that it will get worse before it gets better.

So we got moved up to our room about 9:00pm that night. Evie was worried, but being so brave. This whole time, she has not shed one tear.

So I left to go home and relieve grandma, and take care of the kids. Tessa remained at Children’s with Evie. During the night, Evie received hourly breathing treatments until 6am. Then they took her off the oxygen to see if she was doing ok on her own. Around 9:45am Tessa was visited by a doctor that described that she was doing much better, and that they were going to take her off the IV. They said they were going to take some more X-Rays, and that if she kept it up, she would be able to be discharged this evening.

The kids and I woke up and went up to see Evie. We got there and she looked a lot better. We got to play with her and watch some movies, then we came back home to eat Thanksgiving (doesn’t seem right does it, poor Tessa).

November 26, 2009 5:20pm

Its now 5pm. The doctors have told Tessa that they are going to keep her over night. There might be a bacterial infection that they are worried about. They said the first test came back with some bacteria, but the test was inconclusive, so they wanted to do another one before she leaves. The test for the bacteria takes about 12 hours to complete.

I am going up there to deliver some Thanksgiving dinner to my girls tonight.

November 26th, 2009 8:00pm

I went up to the hospital to see my girls, and to bring them some dinner from the two Thanksgivings. They were both very happy to see the food. Evie was is really great spirits. I was able to lay in the bed with her and play. Mamma gave her a bath and the nurse and I changed all of her bedding so that she would be comfortable. Once we had Evie in bed I came home. Tomorrow there will be an asthma class that starts around 9. I am going up there so that Evie won’t be alone while Mom goes to the class, and Grandma Pat will come and watch the kids here.

November 27th, 2009 6:01am

I just got a text message from Tessa that they put her back on the oxygen. I guess she was coughing a lot last night, and she just needs some help to catch her breath. Tessa says she is still doing fine. I am starting to have my doubts that she is will be home today.

November 27th, 2009 12:00pm

Doctor came up and said that since she did have such a rough night, they were going to keep her another night. They want to see her have a successful night sleep with no problems in the morning. They will be brining another shot of antibiotics this evening.

In the meantime, she has been continuing a slow supply of oxygen. She seems to be in good spirits again, but she is tired of being in the bed all day. If she does good tonight and tomorrow we are hoping she will get home tomorrow.

November 27th, 2009 2:55pm

I am home now. While I was there, they took her off the oxygen again, and she is doing good. We are all curious to see how the evening goes. She has some bubbles now that she can blow. The bubbles help with exercising the lungs, and she really enjoys that. We had some good hospital lunch there, Evie ate the cake first (no surprise there), then her hot dog. She is excited about having her brothers and sister over tonight. We are planning on going up there around 5 o’clock.

November 27th, 2009 7:00pm

I took the whole family and sydney up again. She really enjoys seeing her brothers, cousin and sister. They wouldn’t let Frankie go up because he was too young. So I stayed down and looked at the trains while grandma Pat took the kids up to see Evie. Tessa came down to spend some time with Frankie, and Frankie was very happy to see her.

While we were there, her oxygen dropped down a little, so they put her back on it. The started it very low, like 5%.

November 28th, 2009 4:40am

Her o2 dropped down to 84%. The nurse ran in and they upped her o2 up to 40% and started to give her some therapy. Tessa said that she was loosing her color and she looked very tired. Needless to say we were very scared.

November 29th, 2009 11:20am

Around 9 o’clock they came and did another x-ray. A while later the doctor and the respiratory therapist came in and said that despite the troubles that she had this morning, the x-ray was showing that she was getting better. So we are going to continue to do what we are doing and let this stuff take its course.

I am here now, and she is happy. I stopped at Target and bought Tessa the first seasons of House on DVD, so she will have some things to watch.

November 30th, 2009

Evelyn had a great night last night, and we were able to bring her home. She is really happy to be home, and I am sure that she will get better faster here. We have some medicine and breathing treatment to give her for the next 7 days, then she should be back to 100%

We are all very happy for her to be home.