Bronchiolitis

Look how pale she was....

This was taken about an hour after they put us in a room.

She only wanted Daddy to hold her.



6 hours in the hospital wiped the poor girl out.



The Story...

Karidee woke up cute, fun and sassy as ever Friday morning. She had a little cough so I gave her a breathing treatment to help break it up. She ran off playing after the that. About an hour later I could hear her wheezing down the hall. It was that loud! Since I couldn't give her another breathing treatment for 4 more hours I took her to urgent care. The Dr. listened to her lungs and told me they were a bit tight but that he couldn't here any wheezing. (My thinking: Then what the heck is that noise every time she breathes in?) His diagnosis.... "She may have a respiratory infection but she has no fever and her snot is clear. It could also be as simple as her asthma being agitated by the cold. Here is what I'm prescribing for her...."

I pay for the services rendered and run over to walgreens to drop her prescriptions off. The woman at the drive thru winder told me i had to come back in an hour because one of the prescriptions didn't even exist and they had to contact the doctor. So we go home. About an hour after we get home I find Karidee laying on the couch pale and she can barely breath. I could here her inhale and I could tell she was hardly able to get any air in. In my mind I heard: Take her in now! So I called up a friend down the street to watch miss Aviree and rushed Karidee to the ER. Darin was on his way home from Phoenix but got to the hospital right before we were called back to check on her stats. The whole area of Karidee's mouth was dark blue by this point. In fact the nurse had asked us if she had eaten any blue candy. When we told her no she picked up the phone and called I don't know who. But another nurse came to escort us to a room and a couple more nurses and doctors came rushing in... putting oxygen on her face, listening to her lungs, giving her an IV, asking me questions, taking Karidee's temperature. It was awful!!! I knew Karidee was really sick but I had no idea that her life was that endangered. They took blood and also took an xray of her chest. The dr. came by a couple of hours later to tell us that she had Bronchiolitis (its what they call bronchitis in babies 6m to 2 yrs old) and that it was good we brought her in when we did because she was in the beginning stages of pnemonia. Karidee recieved a dose of antibiotics via IV and a steroid breathing treatment before she was discharged from the hospital.

Words can't express how proud we are of our little girl. She was amazing through out the whole experience. She of course cried and kept yelling: All done! All done!" when they put the IV in and when they took her xray, but she let the nurses and doctors do their job. She even told them thank you before they walked away. The nurses loved that. Karidee was pretty proud of her hospital bracelet. All day Saturday she kept pointing to it saying: See? All done! See?

She's on amoxicilan (sp?) and another prescription to keep the airway of her lungs open for the next week. We feel so blessed for the wonderful doctors at the ER and for their quick efforts to help stabilize Karidee. We are even more grateful to our Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost for inspiring me to take her in right away.