Andon in the Hospital

Andon was in the hospital last week for 3 nights. I was not liking his breathing when he went to bed on Thursday night, the day after his b-day and it seemed worse than when he had pneumonia. Of course, Mark was flying! I called the on-call nurse and she said to take him down to the ER. So my mom rushed over to stay with Avery and Andon and I headed down there. They gave him a breathing treatment in the ER and then we waited for about 45 minutes to see if it allowed him to breathe better. The dr decided to give him another one along with another 45 minute wait. Then they decided to give him some oxygen through his nose and the nurse commented that "his stats were coming back up". I asked what stats he was having difficulty with and it was his blood oxygen levels. They were not coming up on his own so they decided to admit him to the pediatric hospital. Mark was in Burbank and was able to be at the hospital by 10am, thank goodness!

So I spent the night with him in the hospital bed but neither of us were able to get any sleep because by that time it was 4am and his O2 monitor was beeping left and right! To make a long story short, we ended up staying in there through Sunday afternoon with 2 chest x-rays, breathing treatments every 4 hours, steroids every 12 hours. It was a long weekend and they still are not sure what caused it. They do not think it's asthma given his family history and the fact that he wheezes on the way in, not on the way out (which is a clear asthma sign). It may have been allergy induced or a cold-gone-bad...no pneumonia like I had originally thought.