Re: Autumn is home from hospital

[Guest guest]

Very glad to hear she is home, I hate the not sleeping that is the

worst and you just get so out of it...do you have any help at home,

or will you at least to you all get back on track?

Take care, , mom to 5 and Emerenc 2.5 22lb 32.5

> Hi all. thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for Autumn. She

> came home yesterday and is doing better. She is breathing much

> better and is on home treatments of steroids and albuterol for a

> little while. It was a pretty scary and exhausting time. She is

down

> a pound now, back to 16.5 and it takes forever to get her to gain,

> she's still not eating well, but is eating some and drinking.

> Periactin doen't work for her so no luck there, but thank goodness

> for cheese puffs! Summer got to stay with me in the hospital room

> and between her crying and Autumn being miserable and comforting

them

> and having nurses give her treatments, oxygen and monitors

beeping

> etc, i don't think I ever slept! I'm sure you all know what that

is

> like. We are now catching up. Autumn slept 14 hours at night, 5

hour

> nap, and 2 hours later back in bed, She also finally has the full

> blown cold that caused this athsma attack when it started. I am

soooo

> tired of hospitals, between her stay and Summer's 2 stays since

> birth, I have been there 2 combined weeks out of the last 8

weeks. I

> never want to see it again....here's for hoping!

>

> mom to Autumn RSS athsma 19.5 mos 16.5 lbs, Summer IUGR

8

> weeks 7.5 lbs, Ocean 3 yrs 31 lbs, Skye Aspergers, OCD, anxiety 7

yrs

> 41 lbs thanks to periactin!

[Guest guest]

Thanks . No, there's no extra help. My husband would love to

help out but he's taken all his vacation time between Summer and

Autumn's hospital stays...all out of time! It would be nice though

mom to Autumn, Summer, Ocean and Skye

> > Hi all. thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for Autumn. She

> > came home yesterday and is doing better. She is breathing much

> > better and is on home treatments of steroids and albuterol for a

> > little while. It was a pretty scary and exhausting time. She is

> down

> > a pound now, back to 16.5 and it takes forever to get her to

gain,

> > she's still not eating well, but is eating some and drinking.

> > Periactin doen't work for her so no luck there, but thank

goodness

> > for cheese puffs! Summer got to stay with me in the hospital

room

> > and between her crying and Autumn being miserable and comforting

> them

> > and having nurses give her treatments, oxygen and monitors

> beeping

> > etc, i don't think I ever slept! I'm sure you all know what

that

> is

> > like. We are now catching up. Autumn slept 14 hours at night, 5

> hour

> > nap, and 2 hours later back in bed, She also finally has the

full

> > blown cold that caused this athsma attack when it started. I am

> soooo

> > tired of hospitals, between her stay and Summer's 2 stays since

> > birth, I have been there 2 combined weeks out of the last 8

> weeks. I

> > never want to see it again....here's for hoping!

> >

> > mom to Autumn RSS athsma 19.5 mos 16.5 lbs, Summer

IUGR

> 8

> > weeks 7.5 lbs, Ocean 3 yrs 31 lbs, Skye Aspergers, OCD, anxiety 7

> yrs

> > 41 lbs thanks to periactin!

[Guest guest]

Hey ,

I'm glad Autumn is home. Hopefully you can catch up on some sleep.

B

5 1/2 and Kelli 3

anderkat3 wrote:

Hi all. thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for Autumn. She

came home yesterday and is doing better. She is breathing much

better and is on home treatments of steroids and albuterol for a

little while. It was a pretty scary and exhausting time. She is down

a pound now, back to 16.5 and it takes forever to get her to gain,

she's still not eating well, but is eating some and drinking.

Periactin doen't work for her so no luck there, but thank goodness

for cheese puffs! Summer got to stay with me in the hospital room

and between her crying and Autumn being miserable and comforting them

and having nurses give her treatments, oxygen and monitors beeping

etc, i don't think I ever slept! I'm sure you all know what that is

like. We are now catching up. Autumn slept 14 hours at night, 5 hour

nap, and 2 hours later back in bed, She also finally has the full

blown cold that caused this athsma attack when it started. I am soooo

tired of hospitals, between her stay and Summer's 2 stays since

birth, I have been there 2 combined weeks out of the last 8 weeks. I

never want to see it again....here's for hoping!

mom to Autumn RSS athsma 19.5 mos 16.5 lbs, Summer IUGR 8

weeks 7.5 lbs, Ocean 3 yrs 31 lbs, Skye Aspergers, OCD, anxiety 7 yrs

41 lbs thanks to periactin!

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

My husband, and a little girl I babysit both had exactly what you described,

coughing hard and vomiting during the fits. This was just a week ago, then Dasia

hasn't been having any big coughing fits, just flu symptoms, and some congestion

from the cold she just got over. Strange. I have been talking to the nurses at

our Dr.'s office about dehydration, and they thought unless she wasn't making

tears or saliva, and having a wet diaper, at least one every 8 hours that she

would be okay. That they don't like seeing them admitted, unless there is true

risk of dehydration, because of the trauma of the i.v.'s and being in the

hospital while being sick. I kind of thought that would be waiting too long, I

certainly wouldn't want to wait until dehydration set in! A good tip they gave

me though, was to fill a syringe with pedialyte and give her that little bit

every 15 minutes on a bad day, that she's not holding anything down. That these

small amounts would absorb into the stomach lining

very quickly, before having a chance to come up. It's also easier to give them

when they're refusing a cup. I didn't think of this until now, but since the

g-tube goes to the stomach, will they still vomit what goes in, when they have

the flu? Not to be negative about the g-tube, because I am still sitting on the

fence about it, wondering if Dasia should have one, just to be sure she's got

her catch-up weight, come time for GH. Still scared. I'll track your progress!

Dasia is more like Autumn than any of the other kids, when it comes to age,

weight, and height. So PLEASE! Keep me very well posted!

Hi. Thanks you everyone for your e-mails and for your thoughts and

prayers for Autumn, it means a lot to me. She came home last night

after being admitted the night before for dehydration, and she only

has a plain viral cold. She couldn't even fight or scream from the

iv, she just layed there with a hoarse cry. She keeps coughing hard

and throwing up from the gag reflex, do any of your kids have that

problem? It turns a basic cough into a nightmare, and now the cough

is getting worse. Anyways, she was given fluids till yesterday, then

we cut her off to see how she would do, I took her home at 8 p.m. and

she was drinking enough then, not a lot but good enough, and acting

better...being playful and not lethargic and I was hoping she would

do better getting sleep here at home. She took 6 oz of peptamin this

morning but now is refusing any and all drinks/food after. For some

reason when she tries to eat (only a couple of times), it triggers

coughing fits which lead to gagging/vomiting, then she cries and

wants no more of anything. She is not dehydrated and her blood sugar

was 88 when we went in the night before last, so she doesn't get

severe drops in them, but she is still not doing good, I really don't

want to go back, but if she doesnt pick up soon, she will. She just

needs fluids with calories now. She is losing weight fast.

She just gets so overwhelmed at the hospital that it counteracts her

getting better. Most of the time we were there, she just cried and

sat in the stroller I had in her room whimpering " bye bye, bye bye " .

I am so ready for this g-tube. she is getting one in 1.5 weeks and I

need to get her better by then. She just got over a stomach virus

last week and ironically enough, she drinks and tries to eat some

then, but not with a reg. virus/cold. Any and all doubts about the g-

tube are gone.

Thanks for listening.

mom to Autumn 21 mos, Skye, Ocean, Summer