RSV sucks!

While this weekend was fun with my folks, Nathan began to cough more and more as the weekend went on.  By Sunday afternoon, he was wheezing with every exhale.  My mom, ShaSha the RN, listened to his lungs using her (now mine) stethoscope and encouraged me to take him to the doc today.   He coughed every 3-4 minutes on the way home, and every 10-20 through the night.  He woke up at least once an hour crying out.  Thankfully, he was able to put himself back to sleep in a matter of seconds.  

When he woke up at 8am, he was wheezing heavily and was a bit grey in color.  That's not typical of my olive complected youngin.  So, I fed him some breakfast and put him in the car and we headed to the doctor and were at the doors when they opened.  They took one look at him and knew something wasn't right.  They checked his O2 stats and they were between 91 and 95, which is a bit low.  The doc also heard fluid in his chest.  So they gave him a breathing treatment, and his O2 level came back up to 100.  She did a few other things and said it was RSV and that hopefully we'd caught it before it got any worse.  RSV can require hospitalization and we're hoping it doesn't come to that!!

Within a few hours, his temp rose to 104.7 and I called the doc again.  They did a chest X-ray just to rule out pneumonia and for now he's in the clear for that and we are praying he doesn't develop it.  His fever has remained high throughout the evening and at bedtime it was still 102. The second albuterol treatment wasn't as effective as the first and he was wheezing within 2.5-3 hours.  

Bless his heart, he's still in good spirits and has a tremendous appetite (unlike this morning when he would barely eat breakfast).  For dinner, he had rotisserie chicken, a pancake, a clementine, yogurt, peas, peaches, and water.  Crazy hungry, but I'm thankful he's eating so well!

Please pray for our little guy as every breath is labored for him.  He's still coughing a LOT and it makes it hard for him to rest.  Please pray that air would enter and exit his body fluidly and that it would not take effort on his part.  Thank you so much!