Bad News!

Sydney has had a cold for the past week....no big deal right....WRONG! This last weekend Sydney would have episodes of screaming and crying as if she was in an intense amount of pain, one of these episodes lasted about 6 hours and ended with her being so exhausted that she fell asleep crying in my arms. Because I couldn't find anything logically wrong with her I was very worried that it might be her heart. Saturday night Sydney spiked a fever of 103.2, so I abandoned my fears of heart problems and started to wonder if her cold had given her ear infections. We took her to Instacare first thing Sunday.......Sydney has bronchitis! Who Knew! She had barely been coughing at all, the instacare doctor said that the screaming fits that Sydney had was the Bronchitis causing pressure on her ears, that caused a lot of pain as well. Bronchitis was a surprising diagnosis but I wasn't to concerned, after all Sydney has been through a lot worse......right?

Last night we had one of the scariest episodes with Sydney that I can remember sense her surgery! Sydney was restless all night so at about 12:30 she ended up in bed with us,. Her poor little body was shaking uncontrollably as her fever began to rise very rabidly. I got her some Tylenol and some cold milk, but she started having trouble breathing and couldn't seem to catch her breath. After a about 10 minutes of this she started coughing and then threw up all the milk that I had fed her. She then continued to throw up lots of thick mucus. Sydney's body was still shaking really hard and she was covered in throw up so we but her in a bath. She shaking so hard in the bath that it would make her fall over, all the while she was still having a hard time breathing. I decided that the bath was not making anything better so I took her out, only to have her start throwing up huge mouthfuls of mucus again. As she was doing this her feet, arms and mouth started turning blue. By this time both Seth and I were freaked out and decided to take her to the E.R. By the time we got there Sydney had calmed down and was breathing better so we took her to get checked out my my Mom(she's a nurse) instead. When we got to my Mom's house Sydney had a raging fever(103), her oxygen saturation's was at 80(not good!) and her pour heart was racing at about 160 beats a minute. My Dad and Seth gave her a blessing and soon after that her saturation's went up to the mid 80's and her heart rate went down! I really don't think I have been this scared about my little Sydney girl in a long time! It took most of the the night to get her temperature to break but after it did she seemed to act okay.

This morning I got Sydney into see her doctor, She said that Sydney doesn't have bronchitis, but pneumonia and ear infections instead. During the examination Sydney became so upset that she threw up everywhere, very narrowly missing her doctor! We got a bunch of prescriptions and went on our merry little way.

So for the other bad news, Sydney can't get her sedated echo while she has pneumonia, it is to risky to sedate her. I don't know when we will be able to reschedule her echo for, but when I tried earlier they said that her cardiologist was booked clear until August. I really hope that we don't have to wait that long to get her heart checked out. Kind of funny that I was so totally sick about her getting her echo done just a few weeks ago, and know I am just as sick about having to cancel it! Also we made hotel reservations and because we had to cancel last minute we lost $150 of the $200 dollars that we paid for the rooms! So I will let everyone one know where we go from here, Sydney should continue to have the high fevers until Wednesday and then hopefully she will start getting better soon after that!