Too sick for home

At the beginning of March Sophie caught a cold and within a few days wasn't doing well at all.  We took her to her paediatrician when she developed a high fever and he checked her out but at that point it seemed to be all viral and we would have to wait it out.  

Only two short days later we were in the ER after 48 hours of crying and moaning and an inconsolable girl. We were giving her Advil and Tylenol around the clock and it wasn't touching her pain.  We knew she had gone down hill very quickly so off we went to the ER first thing in the morning.  We knew that her heart rate had been very high for a number of days, we found out she now had a double ear infection, sinus infection, UTI and some other infection going on, they suspected she was going septic.  So with super high white blood cell counts and a heartrate in the 160's she was admitted right away.  Sophie used to be regularly tachycardic, in the 220's + when she was a baby, but this was not her norm anymore.   

We had hoped to come home with IV antibiotics like we had in the summer with her bad pneumonia but they weren't willing to send her home and it was the right decision in the end.  So we waited for a bed up in the unit.  Her ear infection was so bad that her eardrum burst while we were still in the ER.  I think that actually caused her some relief from the pain but it was shocking it was that bad when she had no sign of an ear infection only two days before.  When Sophie gets sick she loves to do it in style.  We spent four days inpatient and her fevers and heart rate weren't more under control until the end of the third day.  She had been on two IV antibiotics to kill the infection and she was finally smiling the day we were able to go home.  

I have stayed inpatient with Lucas twice in the new Children's hospital here but not with Sophie before.  She has always been in the PICU when here over the last few years if not just in the ER.  The new hospital is go great and our nurses were awesome.  One of the nurses had cared for Sophie in the community when she was a baby so it was so nice to have her on days for two of our four days.

It was so nice to come home and try to get back to a bit of normal.  Jason and Lucas were in Florida for three of the four days that Sophie was in hospital so it wasn't great timing but we got through it with help from our moms.  I am hoping that is our last inpatient adventure for a long while.

Told her we were going home