Thursday, May 21, 2009

PCMC

So I didn't exactly have the best Mothers Day ever. I ended up at primary childrens hospital with little Ryker. He woke up saturday with a temp of 100.4 so we took him to the instacare, who sent us to PCMC. It was a very long 36 hrs. The poor thing had to endure a catheter with no anesthia, An I.V. for taking tons of blood and giving him 3 different kinds of antibiotics, They had to suction his nose out every 2 hours so that he could breathe and then to top it all off he had to have a spinal tap. It was horrible, I am not going to lie I was an emotional wreck. I was sicker than a dog too and hadn't been sleeping well and then the dr.'s and nurses kept waking us up every 2 hrs for tests or vitals or meds. Needless to say I cried all day in that room when noone was a round. I am so grateful that Jake was able to come up each night and see me, thanks to everyone who helped our family, again. Luckily his temp went down and the cultures all came back neg. so he is home and doing much better now. He is officially 5 weeks old today and is putting on weight like elephant baby. He has been the best baby, he only wakes up once at night and is super good all day. We are so grateful to have him in our lives. And he already fits in so well, he is a fever pitch movie watcher just like the rest of us.





5 comments:

queen bee said...

Stacie

Thanks for posting the new pictures of that sweet boy. he is getting big and a fat little face. I can't wait to squeeze him.

Ang Ballard said...

Ooohhhh, Stacie, I'm so sorry! It's so scary when they are so little and so sick. Jaren had to have a spinal tap when he was only a day old and it broke my heart. I'm so glad he's doing better now. You are an AMAZING mother- sorry mother's day wasn't very fun ;0(.

Marlies said...

he is such a cutie. I am so sorry that you had to go through that. I am glad to hear that he is doing better.

Anonymous said...

I completely 100% know that feeling...don't know if you knew this but we spent a week with Lissa up in the hospital her 3rd week and she had 3 spinal taps and they freakin drained her blood...not literally but you know that is how it feels...luckily Fred was MUCH stronger than I was. I couldn't even sleep at the hospital so he did and I drove up every morning. I'm so glad he is okay...
Loves!

Julie Toone said...

Wow how scary. I think watching your child have a spinal tap is one of the worst things to see. I am glad he is doing better! He is a doll by the way:)