And Back to Children's

Wesley had a pretty good month for January, up until the last few days. His GI appointment and vent clinic both went well. We had to reschedule his opthamologist appointment, and now we will have to postpone that again.

Wesley started getting sick last Thurday night 01/27. His pulmonologist increased some breathing meds to see if that would help. He still wasn't any better the next day, so we took him to his doctor on Friday 01/28. He was really lethargic, running a low grade fever, had a really bad cough, runny nose, increased oxygen needs, and really high heart rate. Nothing we did seemed to make him any better. The doctor gave him a flu test, but that came back negative. He gave him some steroids and antibiotics.

He wasn't getting any better, so we called the doctor yesterday. He said that he should have showed some sign of improvement by this time, and it was best to get him to the hospital. Of course, the weather wasn't going to make anything easy for us. We had to have ambulance transport to one of the local Denton hospitals while he waiting for air transport down to Children's. Before he was transported, they did an x-ray on his lungs and performed a few tests to see what was causing his sickness. They determined that he has pneumonia pretty heavily in both lungs and tested positive for RSV.

Wesley and Dad arrived at Children's late yesterday afternoon. They will be carefully monitoring him and giving other antibiotics to help get him through this. He has been back on the ventilator since we took him to the doctor on Friday.

We were told this would be an extended stay..... not sure how long to expect on this one. Please keep Wesley in your prayers.