It has been a while since I have blogged anything and the reason is because little baby Cooper has been extremely sick. It all started with an ear infection then his doctor thought he had RSV.
On Sunday March 14th Cooper and I were home by ourselves just being lazy and sick. Coop started getting upset and crying and all of the sudden he stopped breathing. I panicked and almost started to do CPR. We called 911 and they transported us to Fayette Hospital. There the doctor just thought that he had RSV, they did a breathing treatment and sucked his little nose out and sent us home.
running a fever.. poor baby
On Wednesday night Coop started getting really sick. He was running a fever of 102.7 and couldn't breathe very well because of all the congestion. So Thursday morning I called Dr. Carter to see if we could get in. He was booked for the day so we had to show up at 5 that afternoon and wait to be seen. Once Dr. Carter saw us it was 5:45 pm and almost everyone had left the office. Two nurses, Dr. Carter, Cooper, my mom, mother-in-law and I were the only ones there. Dr. Carter thought that Coop might have pneumonia and wanted the nurse to give him a shot of antibiotic to see if that would help. When the nurse gave him the shot he started crying and has another spell like he did with me on Sunday. I started yelling at the nurse that he wasn't breathing. She called for Dr. Carter and he came in and took Coop out of the room. He took him to a room that had oxygen and said that he was sending us the Egleston Children Hospital in Atlanta. That was the best thing that he could have done.
Once we arrived at Egleston and doctors started to check him out he had another episode. And let me tell you when he has one of these episodes it starts out with him crying and he has that hard deep cry going on and he will take a deep breath in and not breathe back out. His eyes roll in the back of his head and his face turns red then purple and he goes limp. And in a few seconds he starts breathing again very slowly. So it is a very scary process. Ok back to the story, Egleston decided to put us in the hospital for a few days to monitor Cooper. On Friday lots of doctors came in to check him out. An apnea specialist came to see him also. While the specialist was in the room Cooper had another episode. After that and a few test they told us that it was his vagal nerve. They put him on some medicine and had him on IV fluids and antibiotics. After a day or two he was much better.
in the ER at Egleston
So the conclusion was he had a broncular infection and problems with his vagal nerve not working right. He is now on a heart monitor for a few months and should grow out of these spells. Just keep our family in your prayers and thoughts. Thanks!
Poppa loving on Coop
Get Well Posters: to the left is the one that his buddy Chance made him and the one to the right is the one all of his cousins made him. How sweet! :)
starting to feel better at 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning
Coop with is MeMaw
So excited about going home! :)
