Frustration Everywhere...

So our last post talked about Jovin sharing a cold with Mayer. Well last Saturday Mayer had a fever of 101.2 along with the stuffy nose and a horrible cough. So I called his doctor and they said to take him to the ER. So I did. They ran a bunch of test on urine, blood, a spinal tap, and did a chest x-ray. Everything came back normal. So at 12:30am they sent us home and chalked it up to a bad cold. At 4am I tried feeding Mayer and he threw up what I had fed him and bile. This continued for a couple of hours. I then could not wake him up to eat. So Sunday I ventured out to a different ER to get him re-hydrated or so I thought.
As the nurse in ER was getting his vitals she stated that he needed to see a doctor right away. The doctor came in and immediately ushered us to a "special" ER room for infants. As soon as I laid him down on the bed to be examined about 12 doctors, nurses and specialists surrouned Mayer. I was left in the corner of the room scared, and very confused. As it turns out Mayer was having some major breathing problems so they sedated him and put a breathing tube in him. This ER did a bunch more tests and x-rays and could not figure out what was wrong. I was then told that they were going to life flight Mayer to the Children's Hospital in Phoenix.
So Sunday afternoon Mayer gets to be the first one in our family to fly in a helicopter. (I think Cory is jealous.) We got to the Phoenix Children's Hospital and they put him in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit or PICU. They end up running some tests and it turns out that Mayer had RSV. CRAP! So Mayer ends up getting a feeding tube put in too cause of the breathing tube. Hence the picture below.



Mayer got the tubes taken out Tuesday and started eating better but was put on oxygen. We (Mayer and I) were transferred to out of the PICU in the middle of the night to the regular floor rooms. And there we stayed until this morning. Mayer finally did well throughout the night with no oxygen helping him. I was so BORED being in the hospital all week long. See even Mayer was bored...



It is so good to have Mayer better, finally eat good food, and to be home with Cory and Jovin. Also, Mum (Cory's mom Dianne) flew in last night to help us out for a few days.
You know it really sucks when your child gets sick!