It’s been a long few days here at the Bryant house hold. Liam has been on both Tylenol and Motrin every 6 hours (getting pain meds every 3 hours) but was still in pain. He also would run a low grade fever, nothing we worried about because we all thought he was teething. Between that and the repertory issues, it’s been horrible. Liam has needed extra treatments the past 2 days and still sounded crappy as well as breathed heavy after. His comfort level was better after the treatment but within the hour he was miserable again. After 3 nights straight of him waking up every 15-45 minutes, I finally said “enough is enough, something’s wrong” and called the doc. Our pediatrician said bring him in A.S.A.P. that he thought Liam might end up having to be admitted to Children’s Hospital but wanted to see him first. I got together my “emergency hospital stay” bag filled with just enough to get me through 3 days as well as Liam’s diaper bag , meds and nebulizer, just in case. When our Ped thinks he’s going to have to be admitted then he’s usually admitted. After he listens to Liam, he looks at me and says “He looks like crap. He’s not looking good at all. His lungs sound bad. There’s crackling at the bottom of his lungs and I think he has pneumonia” He decided to check Liam’s pulse ox (95% BTW) and give him an extra Albuterol treatment. After the treatment he came back in and listened to him again. The crackling was still there, just not as bad but clearly there. At that point it was time to decide what we really needed to do. Since the only way to get admitted is to have his pulmanologist admit him (wasn’t going to happen since we weren’t seeing them until April 30th) or to go through ER, our Ped decided we needed to try to see if we could deal with this as outpatient first. He gave Liam a shot of heavy duty anti-biotics as well as 6 doses of a breathing treatment that works the same way as Albuterol that he is to get every 8 hours and to have xrays taken. The plan is that he will call me tonight as soon as he gets the results from the xrays back to let me know what it looks like and to check on Liam. If his xrays look good then he gets to stay home and we try to treat whatever the issue is outpatient. But if his xrays look bad and proved pnemonia and he’s struggling then off to Childrens Hospital we will go. We are all praying that his xrays are good so that he can stay home. If not, then it is what it is. It’ll just be more paperwork added to his medical file, and another page in Liams scrapbook….
4:30pm After 4pm breathing treatment:
Liam is satting at 92 and 93% were as at noon he was 95%. I left the pulse ox on for 5 minutes waiting for it to go up but it stayed there. His temp is now 99.4 were as at 3p it was 99.1. He slowly declining. Maybe its just the time of day, we’ll see. For now I am off to get things ready just in case.
Please continue to pray for our little lamb. Pray that his fever breaks, that his xray looks good and that his lungs start sounding good and he starts breathing better and satting better. Thank you all
**UPDATE**5:59PM
Just talked to the doctor and Liam's xray is clear of pneumonia!! Thank You Jesus!!!
But....He did say that the xray results yeilded that there is now scar tissue on the lower right lung. Thats where were hearing the crunchy raspy noise. I have no idea what could have caused this. Yes he was intubated for his GJtube surgery but weve had xrays since then and nothing has shown up. Not just that, the intubation tube shouldnt have gone down that far so I doubt it would have been that. This is pretty scary for us because the right lung is Liams good lung and we have no idea why its suddenly growing scar tissue. So now we just keep a close eye on Liam and if he gets worse we call the doctor. Our ped wants us to check in tomarrow to make sure Liam is still doing ok. If only Liam could talk to let us know whats wrong.
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