Brenton's 1st Hospital Stay
Poor Brenton came home Friday from School with another temp. But this time is almost 104, he was also vomiting non stop. All weekend no matter how much I stayed on top of the fever it just would not break. Brenton's poor little body was just exhausted. He had no energy and was just miserable.
Saturday evening, I just had this awful feeling like I shouldn't go to bed. Every hour I was with Brent changing out washcloths, every 2 hours piggy backing fever reducers, rubbing his back, changing out throw up bowls. By Sunday Morning his fever never went under 103. So at 5am I woke Alan up and asked him to give Brenton a Priesthood Blessing. I just knew something was terribly wrong. Alan, & my In-laws insisted he was fine. But I just couldn't let go of this feeling. Sunday evening was a re-run of Saturday evening.
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| Fell asleep on the toilet... :( |
I called Alan's family Doctor, and got Brenton a appointment 10am Monday Morning. I told Alan, I would feel better if he worked from Home, so he did. Brenton threw up 4 times between our Car and the entrance to the Building. The Doctor agreed and said it must be a bad Flu bug. But just on the safe side we should run some blood tests. He gave me a prescription for anti-nausea medicine to get some food into him. By 3pm we had the phone call. Dr. Dougual informed us that Brenton's Blood results came in and we needed to drop everything and get him to the Emergency Room at the Hospital right now. That we would have no wait, and the ER would be expecting us. Later I found out that his levels were deadly.
I grabbed Brenton & left for the ER immediately. Alan called his Dad to sit with Savannah and wrapped up his work. He was 40 mins behind me. We got to the ER, I was amazed how PACKED it was compared to Utah. Within 5 minutes we were in a ER room.
In the ER, Brenton's temp hit almost 105. They hooked him up to a heart monitor, and got a IV in right away to start pushing medicine & fluids. He also had a chest X-ray done.
He finally fell asleep while we were waiting. I don't think he's had solid sleep the whole weekend.
His Fever finally Broke!!! Sweated thru the Hospital Bed Sheets. So they had to come in and change everything.
Grandma Thorpe came and saw Brenton for a few hours. She & Alan went and got Dinner for us and sat with Brenton while we ate in Alan's Car.
The X-ray results came back with a very serious case of Pneumonia. Pneumonia the size of a baseball in one of his lungs. They think it was from being so sick back to back over the past few months. They decided to test his oxygen levels. They were still too low, so they decided to Admit him.
We finally got admitted to the Peds Unit around midnight. He wanted Mom to stay with him. So Alan went home to be with Savannah.
Brenton woke up & his fever didn't come back!!! He did wake up coughing quite a bit.
Still not himself. They brought him juice around the clock to get him to go the bathroom.
First Smile Ive seen in 5 days!!! He was so happy to see the Disney Channel on the TV in his room.
Usually they don't allow siblings under 5 to visit. However, Brenton kept asking for his Sister. He had full on bawled 4 times for his Sister. They caved in, and let her come visit. I think it made his day.
He was so excited to show Savannah his view from his room. The Doctors had retested his blood and his levels were still too high. They decided to keep him for another night. Grandpa & Grandma Thorpe came to visit and brought Jamba Juice for Brent. He was so happy, but only drank a little bit. Mallory also stopped in to say Hi.
On Wednesday, Brenton was starting to feel more like himself again. He kept complaining he was bored and wanted to play with his cars again. They came in a did another X-ray to see if the size went down at all.
Brenton had 7 different Hospital Bracelets, including a tracker.
By 2pm the Dr gave him the Okay to go home. The pneumonia was still quite big, but did see a small decrease. Brenton was to go home and rest for the rest of the week. Brent was to be on a heavy antibiotic for 10 days. And to keep coughing up the junk in his chest, and work on his breathing exercises.
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| Brenton riding out to the car. How awesome is this wheelchair for kids?! |
After we picked up his medicine on our way home and surprised Alan & Savannah as home. Brent was so happy to be home. You would have thought it was Christmas!!!
You hope these things never happen. I am so grateful for Modern Medicine, Intuition, & for all the support. Grateful for My Sweet Brenton. Grateful for Alan's Job, excellent Health Insurance, & co-workers sending warm wishes to our family. Alan was able to work from Home all week and it was such a blessing.
Brenton was super happy to see this little guy...
And as if we didn't have enough Sickness in Our House.
Benson was in the Animal Hospital for getting a Bug as well. Even Benson had a IV & antibiotics.
I think the Thorpe's are all Sicked out.
