RSV

Whatever we woke up with the other day, I thought it was just allergies, has now turned into rsv for poor Korbyn!  It's awful!

Wednesday evening when I was picking her up out of her room at the daycare I noticed she had a little cough, nothing major since she had so much snot and congestion the entire week.  But when we got home it turned into this tight, nasty sounding cough which I knew was NOT normal.  I took her to the dr. on Thursday just because we have so much stuff going around the daycare and with the weekend coming up I just wanted to get her checked out.  Sure enough the dr. said she has rsv!  We weren't able to see her dr. but at that point I didn't care I just wanted someone to see her that day.  He said that there's nothing they can do, just let it run its course and by the weekend you should start to notice her getting slightly better, and if anything changes or if she gets worse to bring her back in. 

Colton has been gone all week again for work.  He came back Friday evening and then had to leave again Sunday afternoon :(  AND he was on call for this weekend!  Of course he gets called out right away Saturday morning and has to leave for a job.  Not 30 minutes after he leaves I'm on the phone with the nurse because ever since she woke up her breathing was so fast and shallow and she was having a coughing attack every 5 minutes and she just puked up her whole bottle because of all the coughing.  The nurse scared the crap out of me.  I was explaining to her what she had been having and that we went to the dr. Thursday and so on.  She immediately sounded worried and asked if she was running any fever.  I told her that she hasn't been because I've been checking it constantly but let me go check it.  She had 99.1, which I considered nothing.  As soon as I told the nurse that she said "how far away are you from the Today Care?" (Scott and White's walk in clinic) I told her that we're an hour away and she said "no, go to the nearest ER now!  This is an emergent situation"  I panicked and said but we're an hour away from that too!  She said to get her there as fast as we can.  So I'm trying to hold back the tears and I call my mom and ask if she can go with me.  She comes to the house and we're headed to Bryan.  But thankfully my mom, who always has a level head on her shoulders, calmed me down and reassured me that she's breathing fine and she thinks we should just go to the Today Care.  Luckily we were in and out of there in less than 2 hours, and if we would have gone to the ER we would have probably still been in the waiting room!  The dr. looked at her and said she definitely has rsv and that she's going to get worse before she gets better and that she could be like this for a week.  But as long as she's not running fever and breathing ok, she should be fine.

Well last night I panicked again because the first dr. told me that if her breathing gets above 70 breaths a minute that she's having too hard of a time breathing.  Well I counted and she was breathing almost 90!  And I swore that above her lips it looked like it was turning blue, but Colton looked at her and he didn't think they were.  The nasty coughing I can handle, but her breathing makes me so nervous!  Then all she wanted to do was sleep.  She slept pretty much the past two days.  The only time she would cry was when she would start coughing really hard or when she was hungry, and even then she never even opened her eyes.  Poor baby.

Colton was already in bed last night when I told him that I was just going to sleep on the recliner with Korbyn so I could keep her upright.  Thankfully he said that he would come sleep on the couch with me so I wouldn't have to be by myself :)  I put the humidifier right next to us and she slept so soundly...I didn't, but at least she did.  I think she only coughed three times the entire night!  As soon as we woke up and I got her away from the humidifier she started having coughing attacks again.  So I'm keeping her next to it as much as I can and it really helps her.  She still coughs but it's not nearly as bad.  So hopefully my little booger will get better soon because I hate that she's sick and not feeling good.