Another hospital saga

Remember that bad day I wrote about? Well, worst fears have in fact been confirmed.

Unfortunately, I write this blog post from the (un)comfort of a hospital room, once again.

My 7 year old has been admitted for left lower lobe pneumonia as well as aspiration pneumonia. Not exactly how I wanted to spend my last weekend before my (possible, potential) big surprise, but regardless, here we are.

This happened incredibly fast. I sent him to school Thursday morning hesitantly after minor symptoms only just started. Gave clear inhaler instructions to his nurse and teacher and talked to them every other hour. He made it until around 12:30pm when I got the call.

His nurse said she just saw him 10 minutes prior and he looked pretty much completely fine, but then his teacher called the nurse back in to look at him. Apparently he was extremely lethargic and tired, looked awful and at that point had a 103 fever.

I was already on my way to his school for my 5 year olds first ARD meeting to set up his IEP for the year when all of this happened, and I planned on taking Christian out of school with me anyway when I was done with Phoenix’s meeting to take him to the doctor at 2.

The school was incredibly accommodating and let Christian stay in the nurses office while we moved Phoenix’s meeting up by a half hour and squeezed it in so we didn’t have to miss it. We appreciated that a ton and I’m glad it still worked out.

I don’t know how long we’ll be in the hospital, his labs are disgustingly awful and I don’t know why. His liver enzymes are sky high and his urinalysis is also atrocious. So…I guess we’re just gonna ride it out until we figure out what’s going on.

If you’re the praying or thinking about kind, please keep him in your brains. I’m REALLY hoping I don’t have to cancel my surprise plans. Thankfully I never did tell him about them, so he won’t be devastated…but I will be.

I hate hospital days. And unfortunately, so does the small child sharing a wall with us who has been screaming upon arrival last night. No one likes the hospital, but I hate hearing other kids just so inconsolable and upset. He just sounds scared. Poor guy. I hope his time here is short for his sake, or at least more peaceful.

Anyway, that’s our story. Not much sleep here last night as my own little guy couldn’t stop coughing for any length of time to allow sleep to occur.

Hospitals sucks. For all of us. But I’m grateful at least for his positive attitude. He doesn’t seem to mind these “iPad vacations” as much as I do 😅