Monday, April 7, 2008

Praying for Otto tonight

Otto woke up happy & well today and by 2:30 pm he was admitted to the hospital! He was great and then at 11:40 am the vomitting began. He wasn't himself so I took him to the doctor and he had gone to worse. His white blood count came back really high and admitting him overnight to the hospital was precautionary. He's been on antibiotics for week due to a sinus infection and we're hoping he can continue to fight off whatever is attacking him.
Our poor baby was so very dehydrated today. They poked and prodded for a vein to get the IV started...5 veins collapsed and 3 nurses tried and after 45 minutes they got it going. He was such a trooper and I did okay too.
Jeremy is staying with Otto tonight and he'll be able to talk with our doctor when he does his 6am rounds. I don't "do doctor talk " well that early, so I'm home with Ollie. Ollie was not interested in coming home with me and was very disappointed he was not spending the night with Max. My friend, Kelly, picked Ollie up from preschool and took care of him this afternoon and evening. I'm so thankful for good friends that we can depend on like family. Thanks McGahas.

Here is Otto with his nurses before the IV ordeal.

8 comments:

Meredith Arledge said...

praying for you guys...

Sir Kyle said...

Will definitely keep you guys and little Otto in our prayers.

The Pereira Family said...

Poor thing. Hope he's better soon.

Summers said...

So sorry...I know how stressful something as simple as an ear infection can be so I can only imagine the stress y'all are going through. We will be praying for his quick recovery and a strong body to fight off that nasty bug. Keep us posted.

Unknown said...

oh goodness...
glad you wrote so we could all be praying.
ethan ended up in the ER as a baby with pneumonia...(vomiting, etc..)
rob was out of town and i spent the night with a very sick baby...
he got better quickly though.
i pray this for Otto...to be healed quickly in Jesus name!
love you guys.
wish we lived closer so we could help out.

One of them Youngs... said...

Poor little baby! C-dice you are so strong! I am tearing up right now just thinking about IV's in my babes.

Jeremy Rhodes said...

your nurse kind of looks like Amber Shirley.

Jansen said...

if amber shirley was our nurse we would've had so much more fun in the hospital. awe, i'm missing that girl now.