Just a quick update as I've just spent the last 8 hours in the ER and left Laura and Simon on the 4th floor of Children's Hospital Oakland. Hell hath no fury like an exhausted, sick toddler. Holy crap.
The short version is that they think Simon has pneumonia and are keeping him overnight because his blood oxygenation is below normal (88 without additional oxygen) and anything below 95% is concerning. He was punky yesterday and seemed to have a mild fever (travelling and didn't have thermometer) and an occasional deep, awful sounding cough, but was basically okay, just seemed tired. Today he barely got out of bed and by 2 pm Laura decided to go get a thermometer. He still just felt sort of warm but nothing extreme but the thermometer told a different story. His temp was 105, he was breathing pretty fast by the time Laura got back from the store and we were 4 hours from his doctors. We did an abbreviated pack up of our essentials and left my mom and stepdad at their house on the coast and hauled ass to the ER at Children's Hospital Oakland.
The good news is that his fever is under control with Tylenol and his heart seems to be doing pretty well in terms of low heart rate and normal breathing. His oxygenation...not so much. The chest x-ray didn't show anything and an exam showed a possible left ear infection. Initially we were told no evidence of pneumonia on the xray and thought that ruled it out but our cardiologist thinks that the low blood oxygen is evidence that his body is working harder and since his heart seems to be doing fine, he thinks it's a bigger infection (pneumonia) than just an ear infection.
Will update tomorrow.
This sucks.
1 comment:
I am so sorry to read that Simon is sick and at Children's again! We know how it feels and it sucks!!! Sending you lots of love and many healthy vibes to handsome Simon!
Kathalijn, Loki's mama
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