Joshua at the hospital

Friday started like most Fridays. I gave the boys a bath, we played, and I got them dressed and headed to story time at Barnes and Noble. They had a great time playing, coloring and eating their snack. Two other boys from Jacob's school were there, along with their little brothers (lots of boys!), so Jacob had a blast. We headed home, but decided to stop at Chik-fil-A for lunch. The boys laughed and ate a great lunch, finished off with ice cream.

Both boys took a great nap, but when Joshua woke up he was a little grouchy, stuffy, and clingy. We headed up to my parents' house because we had an early dentist appointment Saturday morning by their home and it would make for an easier morning if we spent the night. We packed up and were there in time for dinner. Joshua ate really well, but didn't drink much.

Bob tried to put Joshua to bed while my mom and I took Jacob to the party store to pick out stuff for his upcoming fourth birthday. Joshua wouldn't fall asleep for longer than a few minutes before he was coughing and crying. When I got home, I tried putting him to bed with the same results. Then we noticed how hard he was trying to breathe. He still seemed okay, but just a really bad cold. We let him fall asleep, and around midnight he was really struggling and retracting and looked terrible. We took him up to the hospital where they got him right in because he was struggling so much - we passed people who had been waiting for four hours to see the doctor and the doctor was in our room within minutes getting Joshua on breathing treatments.

The first treatment didn't get good enough results, so Joshua had an hour long treatment. Afterwards, Joshua still wasn't doing too well. His heart rate was extremely high and his oxygen levels dipped in the 80s, and still working very hard to breathe. They decided to admit him to the hospital, and we were up in our room on the fourth floor soon after.

Joshua had breathing treatments every two hours, and then stretched out to three hours, and finally to every four hours. Around the afternoon, Joshua was doing much better, but they were still talking of him having to stay the night and leave Sunday morning.

The doctors came in to check him right before his breathing treatment that should start at the third hour, but he was souding okay and they thought he could be stretched out to the fourth hour. Things started to improve drastically from there, and he was doing great. They decided he could go home as long as we gave him a breathing treatment every four hours, even through the night, and had him on oral steroids for the next few days. We were out of there around 8 p.m. and home for the boys to head to bed.

I finally crashed when we got hom. Bob got Jacob into bed, and left me to sleep in our room, turned the monitor off, and slept on the couch and took care of the 10:30, 2:30 and 6:30 breathing treatments without waking me up. I woke up around 8:30 to our boys bathed and already done with breakfast.

In other news, Jacob had a soccer game Saturday afternoon and score three goals. He is really getting into soccer, and I love watching him have a good time. I hated missing his game, but glad that Bob could be there with him.

We will have Joshua at the doctor on Monday, so hopefully he is still doing well!