A Not So Fun 10 Days

About two weeks ago, we finally experienced Jocelyn's first illness. Up until then, she hadn't had so much as a cough, Jocelyn and I went to Hays on our own for a weekend. She did great by the way in car. Perfect angel. Friday night she started becoming very congested and then over the weekend, she started coughing more. By Monday, she was pretty miserable. We went to the doctor to make sure that her lungs sounded okay, along with her ears. She was doing okay that day but by Tuesday, her breathing became much more labored. We went back to the doctor and they were thinking that she may have RSV. It is a virus that many kids get at sometime but the younger they are when they get it, the more serious it can be. Many kids become hospitalized with it. So, they gave her a nebulizer (breathing treatment machine). We were doing treatments about every 4 hours to help her breath. There were a few occasions when we couldn't get her to stop coughing a calm down and were very close to going to the ER. But after about 9 to 10 days, she started coming around. Then one day, she was just fine. But thankfully, throughout it all, she was still her happy, go lucky self. One of my big concerns why she was sick was that she didn't want to take the bottle anymore. All she wanted to do was nurse; and that wasn't cutting it nutritionally. But she actually gained an ounce during it all. We were very lucky that she made a full recovery and did not have to spend any time in the hospital.