It's barely been a month since Maddy got out of the hospital and we are back again! She really hasn't felt very well since getting out but that is pretty much her life now so she has been making due. Friday she was very tired and slept all day. I made her get up and eat when I got home from work she told me she was just really tired and wanted to sleep she had a bowl of soup and went back to bed. Saturday was much the same. It seemed to me that her cough got a little worse. We monitored her condition and sumptomes and there was nothing really pointing to her actually being "sick" again. She did have a low grade temp, never over 100, so we called the doctors in the afternoon just to do our due diligence. They said the virus she had last month can really beat her up for a few months and to keep an eye on her. If she got worse or her fever spiked over 100 to give them a call. By Sunday afternoon she seemed on the upswing. The transplant coordinator called around 3 to check up on her and she was doing fine. Today she rested much of the day but started wheezing in the afternoon. Then she took a turn for the worse around 9. The wheezing got worse and she started having coughing fits that were hard to recover from. By the time she was ready for bed at 10 she started shivering so she checked her temp and it was at 101.5. We called the doc and they decided to admit her directly into the hospital. We were expecting a long wait in the ER but they had a room available so that was a good bit of news.
So here we are. They got a chest X-ray right away and have ordered IV fluids and antibiotics for right now. It's about 12:30 and we are still getting settled into the room. They should have the IV in her soon and get those fluids and antibiotics flowing. I'm hoping that helps pretty quick. As we were waiting for the nurse to come in a respiratory tech rolled one of those hepa filters they use when she gets ribavirin. Maddy said "if they try to bring that thing in here I'm going to make a gun out of something in his room and shoot someone!" Ha ha! They haven't even tested her for RSV yet so I'm pretty sure aren't going to just start giving her that crap for no reason. The nurse said no, it's for another patient. I'll update sometime tomorrow when we know more.
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