Taylee's Hospital Visit

Labor day weekend has always been our last camping weekend of the year. This year however we weren't able to afford to go so we stayed home for the holiday weekend. So we found fun at home including camping in the backyard. Sunday Taylee started to show some allergy type symptoms. Just sneezing and a clear runny nose. We camped out in the yard that night. I slept right next to her. She was whining a bit in her sleep and coughing just a touch that night. Late Monday morning she started a cough and was super clingy, I could tell she just wasn't feeling good. Around dinner time I noticed her breathing was much faster than normal. She seemed to be OK aside from that. She wanted to go outside and ride her bike and other things so she didn't really seem that sick. After I put her to bed her breathing was really bothering me so I called Peter Light in our ward. He is the head Emergency Room Doctor at Billings Clinic. He instructed me to try giving her some treatments of Teagan's inhaler and if it didn't help he said I would need to take her into the ER. It didn't help so I took her in a bit after 10PM. At the ER they got her on oxygen right away, took xrays, and gave her a breathing treatment. They concluded she had pneumonia and since her oxygen was so low and she was unable to sustain it by herself they sent her to the hospital in an ambulance to stay the night. There are two hospitals here in Billings, Billings Clinic does not have a children's ward, St. V's does, the two are about five blocks apart so it was a short ride but they felt it necessary. We ended up staying till Wednesday evening. She hated her oxygen on her nose, and we all heard about it till no end. She had a monitor attached to her toe for her oxygen levels, we nicknamed it her glow toe, she thought that was cool for the first day then she got tired of all the other things hooked up to her and it as well! She did not take her medicine well, in fact we had to hold her down most of the time to get it in. Poor thing had to take breathing treatments every couple hours, and four other oral medicines twice day so I guess I can't blame her. Its a good thing she is so darn cute because the nurses and doctors just ate her up. She can be a humorous little thing despite all her being so honry. She was so happy when her sisters came to visit her Tuesday night. We took her on a few walks inside the hospital to get things moving out of her lungs. On the first floor of the hospital there is a nice little atrium area with a wishing well. She threw some coins in and made a couple of "secret" wishes. They must have been about getting better because we were able to get out Wednesday night despite the 40% chance her doctor had given us earlier that morning! It was a very exhausting couple of days and it was very sad seeing her in the hospital, I hope she doesn't have to go back there ever!