Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Megan update
Megan has been not eating real well or drinking again, but wasn't very dehydrated. For 5 days she has been throwing up basically everything we've been giving her. A couple days before that Emily said the Megan had swallowed one of the glass rock half marble looking thingys that people use in pots for fake plants. They are about the size of a penny but rounded and about 1/4" tall. Crystal took her to our Dr on Friday afternoon and he said it was probably just a fever. She has since been in pain at random times for short periods of time and has been painful to toot and go #2. This morning a neighbor offered to come take a look at Megan, he use to be a pediatrician in the military. He said he thought it was pneumonia so Crystal called our Dr which only had an opening at 4pm. So she went to instacare where they took her blood oxygen level, and it was actually at 83. That is when they said she needs to go to the ER and offered an ambulance ride. Here at the hospital her Oxygen levels have been hovering between 90 and 97, so they don't have her on Oxygen. Every now and then for about 30 seconds she'll drop to the low 80s but it jumps back up again. The Dr here is thinking it is RSV. They also have taken two x-rays to look at the lungs and to check and see if there is anything that she has swallowed. We are waiting on the results of the x-rays and the RSV test right now. I did manage to get a picture of the x-ray. It looks like torture to a kid. They put her in a contraption that makes her arms stay straight up and tighten it up snug but not squeezing. Then they rotate it to the angle they want and take the x-ray. She did not like that to say the least.
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That does look like torture! Poor Megs.
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