Well ladies and gents - we are home!!
For those of you who didn't know... Liam managed to develop a severe case of croup last week and was admitted to the hospital this past Saturday morning. After 5 days in the hospital (almost to the minute) we were allowed to come home, and boy is it good to be back! However, Liam still isn't fully recovered, and I'm sure we'll be laying low for several days yet. The poor kid got SO sick Friday night -I had never heard a cough like that from either Riley or Elliot. Liam didn't respond to the saline treatment or epinephrine nebulizer treatment in the doctor's office, so they gave him a steroid shot of Decodron, and off we went to the hospital. I thought we'd be in for just the night, boy was I wrong! He continued to receive nebulizer treatments of racemic epinephrine, as well as oral Prednisone. That didn't quite do the trick though, so yesterday he received a second shot of the Decodron. Thankfully last night was one of his better nights, and so we were released today. He is still having a little bit of the hallmark stridor, this high pitched very distinct noise that happens when you inhale - and his chest is mucousy, and his cough is lingering. But he is definitely on the road to recovery... and thank GOODNESS we are home. You can only take so much of being in the pediatrics unit, listening to children of all ages crying and screaming at all hours. You can only see so many little sad faces with IVs, and hearing the word "obituary" the other morning nearly sent me into a tail spin, with an apparent death the night before. Things such as those make things like the fact that we had to switch rooms at 1AM this morning seem like true minutia.
So, for those of you who sent texts and checked in with phone calls and visits - THANK YOU!!! We were pretty much quarantined and I could barely leave the room, so seeing familiar faces and hearing familiar voices was much appreciated!! We can only hope that Liam will continue on his road to recovery and this will soon be all in our past.
In the meantime, I'm finally back home with all my guys... and no longer relying on my 3 hospital meals a day!! Hoorah.
I have a couple of photos of the ordeal on my camera phone. Somehow Liam's cuteness manages to make it look like it wasn't a big deal at all.
Okay - it's 9:00... on to bigger and better things... namely the season premiere of LOST!!! It's good to be home. :)
Brannon out.
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Gosh Brannon, I am sorry to hear of how ill Liam was and that he required a hospital stay. How very scary for you all. I am glad to ehar that he is on his way to recovering and that you are at home now. Just being home will help wonders I bet! Take good care and get some rest yourself!
~Amy (from May Munchkin '03 Board)
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