Finally home!!

The last 2 days in the hospital were tough ones. On Friday Kasey was doing soooooo good with her oxygen. When I left for the night, she was down to .1L! The lowest she has been yet.

But about 5am the next morning they thought Kasey sounded wheezy. So they ordered an albuterol treatment for her. The albuterol caused her O2 level to drop like a rock and they had to turn her all the way back up to 2L. Thanks to that, they would not let her go home on Saturday.

The pediatrician doing rounds on Saturday decided to take her off albuterol and try a different med. Saturday she did great! She was off her O2 when she was awake, and only needed it for sleeping.

Overnight Saturday night (about 2am) they decided she needed another treatment with the new meds. And again, it had the same affect. It dropped her O2 level. So, it was decided then and there she would not receive any more breathing treatments unless absolutely necessary!

Finally Sunday morning they decided to release Kasey. I think Hubby laid down the law the night before and let them know that we pretty much would be taking her home the next day. So, they agreed to let her go as long as we agreed to have oxygen on her when she sleeps. No problem!

Apria was here delivering oxygen within about an hour and half of us being home. It was nice! I was delaying Kasey's nap as long as I could because I knew they would have to set the O2 up in her room. Finally it was all good to go and I was getting ready to put her down for nap. When I tried to put the oxygen on her, she would have NOTHING to do with it. I don't blame her, it had been a long few days in the hospital. So, I just waited for her to fall asleep in my arms (that only took about 5 minutes) and then I put it on her.

Overnight she has to wear it as well. We were up several times with Courtney, as she now appears to have a cold, or something. The first time she woke us up, we had only been asleep about an hour and a half. I checked in on Kasey and wouldn't you know the oxygen tubes were up on the bridge of her nose? So, I set my alarm for 2 hours. I woke up when my alarm went off and checked on Kasey. Guess what? Her oxygen tubes were again up on the bridge of her nose. Now, she has these little sticky pads on her cheeks but she can still push the tubes out of her nose and up. So, I was up every 2 hours putting them back in. I have a feeling tonight may be the same way.

Tomorrow I will be able to talk to her pediatrician and we can get all of this straightened out. We will find out about how long she needs to be on the O2, and the meds, and all that stuff. I really can not wait to talk to her own pediatrician!

Well, it's almost 10pm, and I need to get some sleep, cause you know I am going to be up every 2 hours. And Hubby leaves at 4am, so it's going to be a long night!