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I haven't slept all night. Elias had a problem Sunday evening while my youngest daughter and I were there. I noticed 3 times while others were visiting that he seemed to have a problem swallowing and breathing. I thought maybe it was just me, but Vanessa went to change him and he did it again. She picked him up and turned him over to pat his back and he burped, so we thought that was the problem. As soon as she laid him back down, he was catching his breath again. I told her to walk out the door to the nurses station and let them know it had happened and to see if something was seriously wrong. My poor grand daughter was hooked up to tubes and couldn't get up, but I told her he'd be fine and went out to see what the nurses were saying. As I walked out my daughter was calling for help. The station was empty so we took off down the hall with him to get to the next station. Got chewed out of running, we were walking fast, but not running and we didn't move him with his bed. It was in a corner and things were in the way, so oh well, we got him there. Only one nurse had an issue. Another told us we needed to only take him through halls with the bed, but was rolling her eyes at the grumpy one. The RA and a couple of others they would have had to call happened to be there, so they grabbed him up and took him in a room to check him out. He ended up in the nursery on monitors. They said they were going to watch him closely for an hour. We went to my daughter's house (the new grandma) and just as we were leaving my grand daughter called all upset. They ended up sending him to the ICU nursery, which is the door just across from Tina's room, so he's close to his mommy. They're discharging her today, but Elias has been held for 48 hrs, half of which is over. He's producing fluids and they want to make sure he's clearing on his own and doesn't have an infection. Been a tiring few days.
I have so much to do, but I'm so tired. I'm going to see how much I can get done, then I'm going to curl up on the couch with the remote and see if I can fall asleep watching a movie or something. I seem to do that easily when I don't want to, so maybe it will work now. Just thought I'd let you all know what's going on in my never ended story called Kim's Life!
I have so much to do, but I'm so tired. I'm going to see how much I can get done, then I'm going to curl up on the couch with the remote and see if I can fall asleep watching a movie or something. I seem to do that easily when I don't want to, so maybe it will work now. Just thought I'd let you all know what's going on in my never ended story called Kim's Life!
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