December 16th - Chase has a stopped up nose - not that concerned.
December 18th - I can now tell Chase has a little head cold - still not going to be the anal mother I was with Blake - so a little concerned but not really freaking out, YET.
December 19th - Chase now has developed a cough - Becoming a little more concerned - Concerned enough to make a doctors appointment for the next Monday.
December 20th - Billy and I went to his work party the night before, so we were lazy all day. Looking back on that I day I remember Chase sleeping a little more than normal, but babies already sleep a bunch. Around 3:30 p.m. we decided to head into town and visit our friends Maggie and Mike. About 5:30 p.m. I tried to feed Chase a bottle and he just would not eat. I thought well he is just tire, has a little head cold might not feel to well. About 6:00 all of us headed to Chick-fil-a for dinner and while we were eating I asked Billy if Chase's arms have always been so pale.
We got home around 7:30 and layed around and Chase was still asleep. I went to give him a bath around 8:30 and notice something very strange - he was moaning everytime he had to take a breath. I got him out of the tub got him dressed and brought to Billy in our bathroom, where he was bathing Blake. By the time I got him to Billy his eyes were rolling back and he was having spells of apnea. It was about 9 p.m.
We called Billy's mom - thank God they live next door - jumped in the car and headed to St. Joseph. Now you have to remember we live 30 minutes out of town. I sat in the back seat with Chase at my chest. Everytime Chase would stop breathing I would give him a little shake and beg him to take a breath. Billy did about 100 mph all the way in -- we made it there in 19 minutes.
They got us back in the emergency room pretty fast. They checked his breathing pattern and his oxygen levels, which was only at 80%. It took them quite a while to get an IV because he was so dehydrated. Since, he was showing signs of menagitis a spinal tap was done, which he did not have. BUT he did have RSV and pneumonia. By about 2 am we were in a room with many wires coming out his poor little foot and a oxygen tank.
Billy and I were told that if we would have put him down that night and went to bed it possibly would not have been a good morning the next day.
I now know that RSV sets in really fast. We were told that if we would have shown up an hour earlier they probably would have sent us home and told us that he had a cold. Within 2 hours of us arriving at the hospital his temperature went from 98 to 102. RSV is highly contagious and it stays in there system up to two weeks.
All his poor little wires!
My poor baby!
