Riley's 1st Hospitalization

What started out just cold like symptoms on Wednesday, turnd into something way more Thursday night. Riley woke up breathing and wheezing very hard and was lathargic. After cleaning his nose, changing his diaper and feeding him, he started acting better but he still had an awful rattling in his hard breathing. Got a Doctor's appt as soon as i could that morning. And as soon as the doctor heard him, the nurse checked his oxygen level and it was only 91. It should be between 95 and 100 with 98 being the norm. So she performed a breathing treatment on him which made his oxygen level go up but it didn't stay up so he sent us to the hospital.

As soon as we got to the 3rd floor of RMC, the nurses had already gotten the paperwork and a phone call from the doctor's office and Riley's room was ready and waiting. They put oxygen on him right away. Then they did chest xrays and a breathing treatment and checked other vitals before hooking him up with an IV. Luckily he had good veins in his hand and it didn't take but on time and it was quick. Although Riley didn't cry too hard. I believe he was to exhausted.

We performed breathing treatments on him every 4 hours all night Friday night and gave him a sterioid.

The doctors, Tauro and Tyler both checked on him Friday. He was so sick. He didn't feel good at all. But he had a lot of visitors. Both grandparents came to visit him.

Saturday you could see a great improvement in his overall behavior. Again, he had visits from his grandparents, great grandparents, and some aunts and uncles. He collected a few toys too which made us very grateful since he got to feeling better and was a little more active and harder to control in a small space. He had no room to crawl around. He just had the length of the bed. The nurses loved him though. And Dr Tyler checked on him twice. By Saturday evening he looked much better and even had the oxygen taken off. And the breathing treatments went from every 4 hours to every 8 hours. Unfortunatley, all the meds had made Riley a little "wired" and he wouldn't go to sleep Saturday night.  It took me over an hour to get him to sleep. Then he woke up an hour later. And a few more times after that. And was completely done sleeping by 5:30am.

Sunday morning, Dr Tauro checked on him and discharged him from the hospital. His oxygen level had remained 99 and 100 even after the oxygen had been off all night. And to be honest....most of the night and day before cause it was extremely hard to keep it on him. And it was a good thing because i'm not sure i could handle him confined to a bed. He was acting almost like his usual self. And it was very hard to entertain him. The nurse even had to come in and untange his IV due to all the rolling around on the bed. He did real well with the nurse taking out the IV. But he did cough so much that he vomitted all over the bed. But we were leaving anyway. haha  Riley has a follow up appointment Friday.

If your wondering what happened to poor little Riley...well...i'll give you the answer that both doctors gave me. They ruled out pneumonia and RSV. They said it could've been anything from change in the weather, to something blooming outside that triggered his breathing problem and low oxygen level. One doctor even mentioned the tornadoes blowing things around in the air. I hadn't thought about that. Although my little man will be on meds for a while,  he is doing just fine.