4-23-11

Well, Wednesday and Thursday night, Quinn fell asleep in the beanbag, and was sleeping so good, that I carried all of it to her bed! Wednesday night she slept Great! Thursday night was another story!

We are equal opportunity hospital goes. After spending last Sunday at Children's, we are spending this weekend at St. E's here in Lincoln. Thursday night, she started coughing, and got to the point that she was coughing more then anything else, so at 4 in the morning on Friday, we headed to the hospital again. After lots of tests, again, we were told she might have pneumonia as well as being told she has a broken collar bone. What? pneumonia I get, but she has not had any falls or anything, so all day I was beating myself up on how I'm holding her, how I pick her up. What am I doing wrong? Then to top it off, Chrissy told me how there will probably be an investigation to see if there is any abuse in the household. I'm all for that, as I don't want anyone to abuse their kids and if broken bones are happening with any kid, I get why that should happen, but I feel bad enough already, and I know there is no abuse happening to Quinn. So bring it on, but what a hassle this will be. Then they got into maybe she has whooping cough, which is very contagious, and all the people around her will need to be tested, so that will be a mess too. So for most of the day, I was feeling pretty lousy, as was Quinn, who was getting her cough under control, but was definitely not feeling good. Ugg! The only bright spot was that she had good timing, as we did not have school Friday, so I did not have to take time off of work.
Well, the evening got much much much better! Dr. Davis (a doctor in our primary doctors office) stopped by to say, first of all, her collar bone is not broken, there was a shadow on the x-ray, but she if fine and her bone is just fine! YEAH! and it looks like she simply has a mucas plug in her lung, that she had to cough out and that was all the coughing she has been doing lately, and now she is simply trying to get the rest of it out, and get her lung to work right again. Phew! That helped me feel so much better! Quinn also slept good. Coughing here and there throughout the evening while sleeping. Once it was around 3 in the morning, she had no more coughing and slept great, which is what she is still doing! Sleeping so good! Oh, it is so good to hear that things are so much better then originally stated, after all the scares, as well as seeing her doing so well again!
PHEW! Not the weekend I planned, well actually it is in the fact that we were going to rest, but not in the hospital. This gives me time to rest with the nurses doing all the work, and I can't clean the apartment from here, so I guess I really do get to rest too!
So being thankful is my goal for this Easter! Thankful that nothing is broken, thankful for Quinn being strong enough to get the mucas plug out and get her lungs back into gear and thankful for the rest that I know we both needed! Thankful that our little family will be able to spend Easter together, as John will be here soon, and we will probably still be here in the hospital, but feeling good and knowing we will be bringing a healthy girl home soon!
I am grateful, and once again reminded how we have it pretty good, and how much worse it could be! PHEW! Oh, I'm going to have to go home to get her Easter Dress to bring up here, luckly, it's a super soft dress, that she picked out, yellow of course. So she will be styling here for Easter!

Here she is right now, sleeping so good! Praise God! Phew!
Blessings to you all!
Susan