What a Week

Happy Tuesday to you all! It has surely been quite the week since last I posted. Sunday night I could tell that our sweet little Butterfly Girl was feeling off. She was pulling at her ears and very clingy. I knew in the morning that she would probably have a cold of some sort. I was not expecting what I had gotten.

Monday morning when she awoke, she was struggling to breath. She was very wheezy and tight in her chest. I could see her retracting at the ribs. She wanted to do nothing but sleep. It wasn't looking very well. So into the hospital we went. At the Emergency room we were seen quickly. They got us right back and started an asthma treatment. Then we were ordered chest x-rays and a steroid. Once those were done we were given another asthma treatment. After both of the treatments were given her pulse oxygen numbers plummeted. She wasn't responding well to the medicine in the treatment. We were told we needed to get admitted.

We ended up spending until Thursday afternoon in the hospital. Pneumonia. Nasty, Nasty, Pneumonia. It wasn't fun. We did however miss some of the worst snow of the season while we were there which was nice. Because of the pneumonia we weren't allowed to have the door to the room open and the doctors and nurses had to suit up in order to give her care. It was not a fun experience, but we made. We were released and were so excited to be home.

Friday night was ended up heading back to the ER. Poor Butterfly Girl was throwing up, had loose stools more then I can count, and was just really shaky. The doctor came to the conclusion that she had gotten a bacterial infection from the antibiotics. The antibiotics were not only killing the infection, but the good things in her body. So we made a plan!

All the while, everyone else had come down with the 24 hours flu bug one by one. All 7 of us ended up having it. It was miserable.

Yesterday we went for a follow up at the doctors office and it was determined that Butterfly Girl has what is called Reactive Airway Disease. From my understanding is that if she gets the common cold she will probably get it for weeks instead of days. It will put us at a bigger risk of getting things like bronchitis and pneumonia. We were given a daily medicine to help combat this and hopefully help us not spend so much time in the hospital and getting sick.

As of today I can say everyone is healthy! Everyone is feeling better! We praise the Lord for that! He is the great healer! He is mighty to provide. Prayers that we all continue to stay this way would be greatly appreciated.