A Long Night

Last night we ended up taking Mia to the ER via ambulance. She wasn't feeling well yesterday, as I mentioned in the blog I wrote last night...she had a slight fever and didn't nap well on our trip to LA, so I put her to bed around 6:45. Then I came and wrote our blog. Around 8pm I decided to go in and check on her since I had given her tylenol around 3pm and wanted to make sure her temperature was still ok. When I went into her room I noticed that she was having a hard time breathing and I thought she just had stuff in her nose (because that's how she was for Brad the night before), but when I picked up I noticed that she was shaking all over and having a real hard time breathing and there was some stuff coming out of her mouth (kind of foam like)...which immediately made me think she was having a mild seizure. So I got Brad and he called 911 from our land line (which we purposefully got for this exact reason) and they said just to keep her calm until they got there...there response time was great, 5 minutes and by the time they got there her breathing had started to return to normal. And her color had come back, she was super pale white (I know she's really white, but she had no color when I found her). So she seemed to have come out of whatever it was and they asked us what we wanted to do and we said we wanted to take her in to get checked out just to be on the safe side, so they put her in her carseat and strapped that to the gurney and into the ambulance we went to the hospital. The lights were on bright and she was enjoying looking at them as we went there...beings a new experience and all. Anyway, they checked her in and got her vitals, her heart rate was at 180, which is really high for our little munchkin and her blood oxygen sats were around 89, which is on the lower side for our little girl (she's usually 94-100). They got her temperature and it was only 100.8, so that was good. The doctor decided to take some chest x-rays because of her heart condition and she also wanted blood work and a urine sample (both not pleasant things for Mia). Needless to say, it wasn't a fun night for her and the results came back and it looks like she might have a slight respiratory infection (or it could be scarring from her operation, they are not sure at this point) and her urine sample wasn't clean, but it wasn't a full blown UTI. They weren't able to get enough blood to run some of their tests, but the blood they did get to run cultures on wouldn't be back for another 24 hours or so, so they said to be safe they were going to give her an antibiotic shot and then put her on antibiotics for the week and we'll follow-up with our regular doctor in a day or so and know more about the blood cultures then. We got home early this morning and put her to bed, around 4am I checked on her to make sure she was ok, and she was and then this morning she got woken up for her medicine and more tylenol and she's been sleeping since. So pray for our little girl, it's no fun being sick.