At the pediatrician's orders, we brought Kyle to the emergency room at All Children's Hospital Thursday around 1pm. At around 9:30pm, they admitted him.
He's negative for RSV and for pneumonia but his respiratory rate is very high and labored and his oxygen saturation levels are very low. He appears to have just gotten a common cold and his lungs just can't handle it. He has a 5 month old roomate with the same signs and symptoms.
He's on 2 liters of constant oxygen through a cannula and he's getting nebulizer treatments of Albuterol every 2 hours (which makes his heart rate pretty high). He's also getting Tylenol periodically (just for comfort - he doesn't have a fever) and antibiotics for a slight ear infection.
Currently, he's getting a LOT of sleep in between pokes and prods from nurses and techs. When he's awake, he's a little spaced out and not his lively self but at least he's not as miserable as he was before they put him on the oxygen.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Crawling Little Man (with video)
Kyle's quite the active crawler ever since Christmas/New Year's vacation. He's gotten to be very quick and he loves exploring. Quite a drastic jump in his physical development.
Here's a video clip of him crawling:
Here's a video clip of him crawling:
(Notice: he bypasses the toy laid out for him and goes straight for the TV remote!)
Kyle also likes singing now. If you sing, "morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing", he'll sing "ding dang dong, ding dang dong", he'll do a shortcut version of "head and shoulders knees and toes" ("head should-toes") and he tries to sing "twinkle, twinkle, little star" but usually just sings "tinkle tinkle tinkle" and "upabof" (up above). He does do a quick version of the motions that go with "head and shoulders knees and toes" but a lot of the time he just does head or toes. I'll try to get a video of him doing that
Pregnancy Update
Well, we're still debating on the middle name for Audrey (Grace is sounding nice) but she's growing at a steady rate and she seems very healthy. We passed the milestone marker (for us) of 27 weeks and are now at 29 weeks. She moves around a lot and has a very powerful kick. She seems to like caffeine, though. Anyone who knows me knows I am NOT a coffee drinker but for the last couple of months I've been addicted to iced coffees. I know that it's not good to have caffeine during pregancy but what can I say? she wants it!
Here's a picture of the little girl herself...
and here's one of the "baby bump"...
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Halloween 2007
We took Kyle out for Halloween this year. He was a caterpillar. Hannah was a superhero. Here's some pics....
Lots of Updates
The car we got from my classmate worked well for a month or two and then quit out on us. We thought we'd just have to go back to how things were (me dropping Chris off at work each morning before going to school and him taking the bus home) but then a couple with a child in therapy with Kyle offered us a '97 Honda Accord for free. The Honda has been a real blessing. Right now it's having electrical problems but we're getting them fixed for a whole lot less than it would have cost for an entire car and we should have it back middle of this week. The Kia has also been a bit temperamental. There was a problem with the heating core but Chris and Steve Eloshway fixed it.
I'm still pregnant, of course. We had a bit of trouble getting on the medicaid for pregnant women but we've finally got it so I'm seeing Dr. Igel for my prenatal care. Last Tuesday, they did a comprehensive ultrasound including fetal echo. This is the second ultrasound. At the first ultrasound they ruled out twins and adjusted the due date to April 22nd, 2008. From the recent ultrasound, it looks like a girl (from the butt shot she gave them). Her first name will be Audrey. We're still debating about the middle name. Everything is going really well. They plan to schedule me for C-section a week before the due date (April 15, 2008).
School's still going well. Other than one B in Cardiac Pathology II, I've been maintaining all A's. We started our integrated clinicals which means I'm going to a clinical site once a week to observe and assist an actual tech. I am with a mobile tech who goes to several different sites during the week to do echos as well as general ultrasound. Who knows? Maybe when I'm settled in this career, I might cross-train for general. Six month full externship is supposed to start March 4th, but because of the baby, I'll be starting full externship after I recover from the C-section. Then six more months and I can graduate. I'm hoping to be able to extern at a pediatric cardiologist for my full externship since that's the specialty I want to be in.
We are still planning the Christmas party for this year. It will be December 22nd in the clubhouse here. We're just working out the details for the invites. As always, all are invited.
Hannah's been growing quickly and learning a lot. Kyle still gets his feedings from a tube. He's quite stubborn in that department. He's in speech/feeding therapy for that. He is able to roll over and stay sitting up if sat up by someone else. He's still not crawling, but we're working on it with physical and occupational therapy. It's all more about sensory input than physical capability. He can't take much sensory input. If there's a loud sudden noise by him, he screams worse than if he's hurt. He's learning new words every day though. He claps and says "clap" or "yea". He says Hannah, Mommy, Dadda, Nana, tickle, go, open, baby, Kyle, no, nap, nite-nite, hello ("ello"), etc. Cutest things so far is when he moves his fingers on you and says "tickle, tickle, tickle" and when he picks up a phone (real or fake), holds it up to his ear and says "ello".
I'm still pregnant, of course. We had a bit of trouble getting on the medicaid for pregnant women but we've finally got it so I'm seeing Dr. Igel for my prenatal care. Last Tuesday, they did a comprehensive ultrasound including fetal echo. This is the second ultrasound. At the first ultrasound they ruled out twins and adjusted the due date to April 22nd, 2008. From the recent ultrasound, it looks like a girl (from the butt shot she gave them). Her first name will be Audrey. We're still debating about the middle name. Everything is going really well. They plan to schedule me for C-section a week before the due date (April 15, 2008).
School's still going well. Other than one B in Cardiac Pathology II, I've been maintaining all A's. We started our integrated clinicals which means I'm going to a clinical site once a week to observe and assist an actual tech. I am with a mobile tech who goes to several different sites during the week to do echos as well as general ultrasound. Who knows? Maybe when I'm settled in this career, I might cross-train for general. Six month full externship is supposed to start March 4th, but because of the baby, I'll be starting full externship after I recover from the C-section. Then six more months and I can graduate. I'm hoping to be able to extern at a pediatric cardiologist for my full externship since that's the specialty I want to be in.
We are still planning the Christmas party for this year. It will be December 22nd in the clubhouse here. We're just working out the details for the invites. As always, all are invited.
Hannah's been growing quickly and learning a lot. Kyle still gets his feedings from a tube. He's quite stubborn in that department. He's in speech/feeding therapy for that. He is able to roll over and stay sitting up if sat up by someone else. He's still not crawling, but we're working on it with physical and occupational therapy. It's all more about sensory input than physical capability. He can't take much sensory input. If there's a loud sudden noise by him, he screams worse than if he's hurt. He's learning new words every day though. He claps and says "clap" or "yea". He says Hannah, Mommy, Dadda, Nana, tickle, go, open, baby, Kyle, no, nap, nite-nite, hello ("ello"), etc. Cutest things so far is when he moves his fingers on you and says "tickle, tickle, tickle" and when he picks up a phone (real or fake), holds it up to his ear and says "ello".
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Car Blessings
The few days after the car died were interesting. Chris and I both woke up an hour early so that I could drive him to work in downtown Clearwater and then drive myself to Tampa. This got Chris to work a full hour before he had to be and at the end of the day his boss was giving him a ride home from work so he had to stay a little late to wait for her.
Then Thursday came. My classmate Scott asked me if we had resolved our transportation issue and I told him how we were managing it. He told me he had a car that he would like to GIVE me! I felt completely stunned. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Sure enough, we made arrangements for Saturday to go to Naples to pick up the car. His reasoning for giving me the car was that it was a "karma thing" and he was just "God's mule". Saturday morning, Jenn joined me and Scott for a road trip. (Naples is officially the farthest south I've ever been.) We drove out to Naples and picked up the 1988 Cadillac Fleetwood. It was a little tempermental to start out since it hadn't been driven but once in a full year. But once the dust shook off the engine, it proved to be a real sturdy, reliable car.
We are so blessed to have people in our life like Scott who see a need and fill it. Many people would have tried to get some money for such a good car, but he just wanted it to go to someone who needed it.
Then Thursday came. My classmate Scott asked me if we had resolved our transportation issue and I told him how we were managing it. He told me he had a car that he would like to GIVE me! I felt completely stunned. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Sure enough, we made arrangements for Saturday to go to Naples to pick up the car. His reasoning for giving me the car was that it was a "karma thing" and he was just "God's mule". Saturday morning, Jenn joined me and Scott for a road trip. (Naples is officially the farthest south I've ever been.) We drove out to Naples and picked up the 1988 Cadillac Fleetwood. It was a little tempermental to start out since it hadn't been driven but once in a full year. But once the dust shook off the engine, it proved to be a real sturdy, reliable car.
We are so blessed to have people in our life like Scott who see a need and fill it. Many people would have tried to get some money for such a good car, but he just wanted it to go to someone who needed it.
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