The Big Story...

Okay first off...WE ARE HOME! YAY!!! Thank you EVERYONE for all the prayers and well wishes, they definitely helped us get our little dude home!

Here's the whole story as of my last sick post of Cameron:

Tuesday night Cameron was getting to the point of being lethargic. He just laid there and stared at the TV or slept right on the floor which is totally out of sorts of him. Wednesday morning he woke up and he was breathing very fast and just laid around without moving and wouldn't eat but when he would drink he would shake really bad which scared the crap out of me. There was something obviously very wrong. I called the Dr's office and they said for him to come in ASAP. They check him out. He was wheezing, so they hooked him up to a neubulizer to help with the wheezing. During that treatment, they discovered he had an ear infection in the right ear. They check him Pulstat (oxygen levels) and noticed they were pretty low. They also at this point started to come to a conclusion that he most likely has asthma. They decided to try another in office neubulizer treatment and it didn't bring it up. Cam's Dr wanted him to go the St. Christopher's ER to get a xray to rule out pneumonia. I called Gerry and told him to meet me there. They took him back, got an xray, and it came back with pneumonia on the lower right lung. They also gave him ANOTHER neubulizer treatment and again, his oxygen levels did not go up. At that point, they decided that he needed to be admitted. They drew blood and sent that up to the lab. Wednesday/Thursday AM (very early AM) they took samples of his nose secretions and the test came back positive for RSV. So at this point, he had been diagnosed with:

RSV
Pneumonia in Lower Right Lung
Upper Respiratory Infection
Ear Infection
Asthma

So Cameron had a big list of problems. He was hooked up to oxygen Wednesday and they would only release him if he would be able to breath without extra assistance. They started him on 1 liter of oxygen. Everyday it went Up and Up and Up...we get to 4 liters at one point. We thought we were never going home. He was having a hell of a time at night keeping up with his oxygen levels. Cameron loves to sleep on his belly and that was making it drop. Finally by Friday night he had gotten down to 1 liter again and I had asked the nurse to get the Dr to come in the room. We talked about doing another type of oxygen delivery to him. Instead of the little nose prong things, we hooked him a tube connected to his shirt, blowing air at him directly since he was breathing through his mouth. It worked and by the next morning they took him off oxygen. He did drop during naps, but when he had no oxygen and was awake, he was up to about 97%. Finally the Dr decided to release him. We were beyond ecstatic!

Cameron did SO well with all the needles, breathing treatments, vital takings, etc. He was so good being cooped up in a tiny little room. He couldn't really get out of bed to move because he was hooked up to monitors and oxygen and it didn't reach far. The bed was a big giant metal crib and he just laid there like a good little boy. We are so proud of him. I think we also have a whole new level of patience. Once he was back to getting perky, he would have his hissy fits in his crib, throwing his juicy cup etc, but we dealt with it as best as we could.

I can not even explain how nice is it to finally be home with him. It has made me so thankful that he did not get this as a tiny baby since it could of been so worse. I'm also keeping all those other little babies in the Children hospital that are not fortunate to come home, it breaks my heart and I can only being to touch the surface of how those parents feel.

Thank you again everyone for all the prayers and well wishes. Cameron is now home, eating, playing, hitting and screaming at me like he used to :-) He still gets tired very fast and is still getting neubulizer treatments and antibiotics along with steroid treatments. He is getting better everyday!