Sunday, February 14, 2010

Children's Hospital

We spent the night at St Louis Children's Hospital on Friday night. Took Madison to the Emergency Room around noon & she was given an IV and admitted. She had been fighting a sinus infection for the past few weeks & the oral antibiotics were not working. Chest xrays determined that she had pneumonia, bronchiolitis and Human Metapneumovirus (a respiratory virus). Even with the IV's administering fluids & antibiotics, her fever spiked again to 104.7 on Friday night. Another dose of the IV antibiotic seemed to help on Sat morning & she was finally acting normal on Sat afternoon. We were released last night & are home now. She is breathing normal with no fever - doing 100% better than a few days ago. The Dr's at Children's Hospital are working with her pediatrician to try to find a reason why she keeps getting so sick. I definitely recommend Children's Hospital - the staff, nurses & Dr's are great!

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