Monday, February 20, 2006
Sophia is in the Hospital Again
Hi everyone,
We had to take Sophia in to the emergency room Sunday with a cough that was causing her to de-sat considerably. We suspect she picked up a bug at a pre-op appointment to get ear tubes on Monday. She got her tubes on Tuesday. And Wednesday, she started coughing and getting pretty snotty. We took her to the pediatrician that day and he prescribed some amoxicillin to keep it from progressing in to an infection. By Saturday, we were convinced we would have to go back in on Monday. But by Sunday night, we were in the ER.
They did a chest x-ray in the ER on Sunday. But, they haven't made a determination yet. She has "something" on the left side of the x-ray. They aren't sure if her heart is enlarged, it is scar tissue from her last surgery or she has pnuemonia. Her cardiologist hasn't been able to get up to see her as he has been dealing with a newborn at another hospital that is apparently being transferred to Children's Mercy today.
The hospital is doing an echo right now and her cardiologist will be up to look at the X-ray and Echo this afternoon.
I will post as soon as I know what is happening next.
Bye For Now-Michael
We had to take Sophia in to the emergency room Sunday with a cough that was causing her to de-sat considerably. We suspect she picked up a bug at a pre-op appointment to get ear tubes on Monday. She got her tubes on Tuesday. And Wednesday, she started coughing and getting pretty snotty. We took her to the pediatrician that day and he prescribed some amoxicillin to keep it from progressing in to an infection. By Saturday, we were convinced we would have to go back in on Monday. But by Sunday night, we were in the ER.
They did a chest x-ray in the ER on Sunday. But, they haven't made a determination yet. She has "something" on the left side of the x-ray. They aren't sure if her heart is enlarged, it is scar tissue from her last surgery or she has pnuemonia. Her cardiologist hasn't been able to get up to see her as he has been dealing with a newborn at another hospital that is apparently being transferred to Children's Mercy today.
The hospital is doing an echo right now and her cardiologist will be up to look at the X-ray and Echo this afternoon.
I will post as soon as I know what is happening next.
Bye For Now-Michael
