Family Update

This is Rachel once again writing. Last Thursday night, I was moved up to the recovery room, and then Kara and I were discharged Friday afternoon. It was a bit of a rocky first few days at home--I still felt tired and sore from labor and the surgery (and the 8 bags of blood I was given!), but my family has been a huge help, and we were able to get in to a routine (sort of).

This Thursday morning, I noticed that Kara had a cough and a sneeze along with congestion. We had an appointment on Friday with our pediatrician to check her weight, so we asked him about her cold symptoms then. He told us she looked ok, but gave us some signs to watch for. Unfortunately, by Saturday night, she had gotten considerably worse and had developed all of the signs we were told to watch for. We took her in to the ER last night at 10, and they moved us up to the pediatric care unit at about 3:30 this morning. She tested positive for RSV and bronchiolitis (she most likely picked up the RSV at the hospital after she was born), and is currently hooked up to oxygen and an IV to keep her from getting dehydrated because she hasn't been eating much. Thankfully, her case is not as bad as some of the cases they've seen, and by frequently "vacuuming" the mucous build up in her nose and keeping her on oxygen, they expect her to start improving over the next day. It has been really hard to see our little baby hooked up to so many machines, but I am thankful that she hasn't developed a worse case and that we took her in when she did. We have had a ton of support from friends and family, and we are hoping to be able to go home with her Tuesday. I will be glad when we can get home and try to finally get settled.

We will keep the blog updated as best we can when we know more, but we are hopeful that today was the worst of it and that Kara will start turning around tomorrow. We are glad to have our family and friends close by to help us out and give us such wonderful support.