A Trip to the Hospital :(

Last week we made a trip to the Phoenix Children's Hospital ED. Page had increased secretions in her mouth that were making it nearly impossible for her to sleep. After a couple hours of suctioning, I took her temperature & sure enough she had a fever. She was also lethargic & not eating very well. I called the doctor's office & they recommended using saline nasal drops with suctioning & watching her fever. When the fever went up we had to take her in. Her temperature had gone down by the time we got to the ED, but they wanted to do a septic work up anyways (LP, labs, & cath). The CSF & urine were normal, but she had an elevated white blood cell count. They admitted us for 48 hours of IV antibiotics. While in the hospital, they did a nasal swab to test for respiratory infections. Luckily, the swab came back negative.

In addition to the respiratory stuff, they detected a small heart murmur while we were in so they did an EKG. Luckily, the murmur ended up being nothing to worry about. Page also had a diaper rash so they had us use a couple different creams. We were discharged after the 48 hour cultures came back negative. They said she probably had a virus that they didn't test for. It was a long couple of days & really hard to watch our baby girl have so many invasive procedures done. However, the nurses were amazing & it was nice to see our PCH friends :) We are happy to be home!

A couple pictures from the hospital...

Our little tropper
She did a lot of sleeping

Sleeping through her EKG

Going home!