Beckett's 1st E.R. visit :(

My poor baby boy had to go to the emergency room earlier this week. I never want to have to go to the emergency room again. On Sunday Beckett's eye started getting swollen and goopy so we took him into the doctor on Monday, just an eye infection, got some medicine, good to go....or so we thought.

That night we put Beckett to bed, an hour later he woke up screaming, his eyes are almost swollen shut and he had a temperature of 102.5 (even with Tylenol in his system). We took him down the road to the emergency room to make sure it wasn't serious. He went through a couple tests there (lasting four hours-we were there until 2 am). They put tubes up his nose to suction his mucous & take samples. He then had to get a chest x-ray to make sure his lungs were clear. The x-ray was awful, he is so small that they put him in this torture contraption with his arms straight above his head and plastic holding him in place. It was so sad, traumatizing for me. His lungs looked clear, luckily, so they diagnosed him with Bronchiolitis.

The next day we went to his regular pediatrician, Dr. Boettger. He gave him another breathing treatment (with an oxygen mask) that we brought home and are doing here as well. His tests were negitive for RSV (luckily!) but he has another respiratory viral infection. He is getting better, he is strong, but still having trouble breathing and a really bad cough. I hope we don't have to deal with anything like this again. The only problem now is that I got sick too....now Josh is taking care of 2 sick babies :(

Above is a happier picture of B this past weekend, he is getting big and SO close to walking. Leaving on a happier note....his 1st birthday is in just over a week. Woo hoo!!