Tyler's eight day stay at Primary's

Right after Shaun's homecoming, Caden came down with a cold and promplty passed it onto Tyler via sticking his hands in Tyler's mouth ALL the time. Tyler managed it okay for a few days, but then started retracting and wheezing, so I took him into a night time clinic (why do kids always get sick on the weekends?) The doctor there debated on admitting him because he didn't sound good and was so young (only 5 wks and 5 days at this point.) But after the chest xray came back clear, he decided to send us home with strict instructions to bring him to the ER if he got worse or spiked a fever. During the night he got much worse and started running a temp, so Sunday morning I left all the kids with Bruce and took Tyler up to the ER at Primary Children's. They did lots of blood work, started an IV and put him on oxygen. He tested positive for RSV and was not maintaining his oxygen well and was requiring wall suction, so they decided to admit him. I thought he might be there for 24 hours, maybe 48, but they kept him for eight days! It was pretty much the longest eight days of life. The first night we were there, he crashed and was totally unresponsive. They had a whole team of people working on him and they brought in a crash cart, but thankfully they got him stabilized and he didn't require intubation. It was terrifying, but I am so grateful for the great care that he recieved. The little boy next door had RSV, too and he crashed as well, but had to get a trach and was transferred to the ICU.

Vivienne and Bruce pretty much had to take over as parents to Kenzie, Cierra and Caden because I was at the hospital and Erick was in New Mexico. Thank you both for your help. Viv came up at some point every day so at that I could go home and shower and see everyone for a bit. We also had a couple of people from our ward came and stay with Ty, so that I could be home a little bit more. It was quite the experience. I don't know how parents of chronically-ill children do it. Thank you to everyone for all of your prayers and for all of the dinners that were brought to us. Tyler is doing great now and hopefully will never have RSV again.

One very sick little baby :(


One very tired mom and Tyler

Sleeping baby


Sleeping with his new teddy bear from Build-a-Bear, "Charlie"

A view of our prison cell :)

Mama and Tyler


Finally starting to feel better

Nana and Tyler

Taking a test run without any oxygen

Finally on our way home after eight long days!