RSV

After being home for only a week and a half poor milo caught a cold.  We tried so hard to protect him from everything we could, but cooper caught a cold just a few days after we brought him home.

The first two days of the cold we watched his breathing closely and did our best to keep his nose clear.  We knew he couldn't breathe well because the hospital was never able to pass a feeding tube through his left nostril.

Eventually milo got too congested for our comfort level and really started struggling to breathe.  And he had a slight fever as well.  Around 8:30PM Dallin took him up to primary children's hospital while I stayed home with Cooper.  I assumed that they would suction him out and they'd be home in a few hours.  I put Cooper to bed and went to bed myself.

The next thing I know it's 1:00AM and they still aren't home.  I call Dallin and he tells him that they've admitted milo and discovered that he has RSV.  His oxygen levels weren't great, so they put him on a nasal cannula to help him breathe better.

We spent the next 3 days taking turns spending our days and nights with milo at the hospital and cooper at home.  Milo was so congested and needed oxygen for the first 1 1/2 days and then after that he was able to keep his oxygen levels up on his own.  His voice and cry were so raspy that it was heartbreaking.  They had to keep suctioning him out every 4 hours or so or else his levels would drop.

With his narrow nostril, the doctors decided to do a CT scan to see if the nose bones in his face were misshapen and if they were then they'd have an ENT come meet with us.  The CT scan showed that his bone structure was normal, but that there was excess cartilage and it was blocking off the airflow. He had zero airflow through his left nostril! We decided that we would follow up with an ENT when we came home and see if there was something that could be done.

A few days later milo was doing much better and we got the green light to take him home.

Again, it was great to be home as a family again but we still were worried about his breathing and spent most of our time watching him closely.