10/30 - Back in the Hospital

Leo is being Rambo for Haloween...not really... Just a baby with an IV in his head.

The last few days Terry and I were thinking Leo was fighting off a bug but that feeling happens every week. Well this time the bug won :(. He started working harder to breath, coughing and droping his oxygen Tuesday night. Wednesday morning he needed oxygen and to stay on the vent to maintain his stats. I sent a video to his breathing to his Pulmenologist's office and they said bring him to the ER. Ter came home from work and we got to Peoria about 11:00. We kept him in the vent and oxygen but it was a calm car ride (not like the last trip to the ER. He had a 103.3 fever and they admitted us. Overnight he had several coughing fits but overall did well. He tested positive for the rhino virus, which is just the common cold. I think they also said he has bronchitis which would explain the coughing but I need the doc to explain that one. 

He is still on 3 liters if 02 and has higher vent settings than normal. I assume he needs to ween off that before we can go home.

The rest of our week was also a challenge. On Monday we left for Chicago at 9:00am to see his eye doc . It was a 3mo follow-up but he also appeared to have a scratch and redness in his left eye that needed checked out. The ride was horrible. About an hour in he started throwing up and afterward he couldn't maintain his stats so we had to bag him and give 02 in the car. His eye was more severe than we thought. She said his cornea had scarring and starting to get infected. She put him on a strong antibiodic eye drop and more lubricant. 

His eye got worse on Tuesday. He developed fluid around his iris that moved with his head. I called the on call doc in Chicago and texted pics. She wanted me to bring him in but that couldn't happen with his respiratory issues. She bumped up the antibiotic and said we needed an eye doc to culture the eye and make a special medicine for his bacteria. Well that is challenging when you are on the way to the ER. They finally got an opthmologist in the hospital to see him at 8:00pm he was not easy to work with but changed the medicine around again. He said we need to get a specialist in here today....easier said than done :(. Good news is the infection looks better this morning! The abrasion/scarring still looks bad and he still has the weird fluid but at least moving in the right direction.

Prayers we find the right doc today and we get to go home!

The white crescent shape on his earside is fluid in his eye!