Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Emily's stay at Primary Children's Hospital

Emily bright eyed and bushy tailed on her last day in the hospital. Sorry about the red eye on the pictures.
The last part of the weekend with the kids was an eventful one, at least for Emily and I. Ethan and Isaac were not so thrilled with it. Emily went into the hospital for some type of respiratory order(pneumonia or other ailment). I took her to the Park City Health Clinic on Friday and she was breathing over 60 breaths per a minute and her oxygenation was at 82%. That is not good or so the doctors say. They wanted me to get her to Primarys as quick as I could. They really wanted her to go in an ambulance, but I knew I could get her there quicker. She was there from Park City to Primary Children's in less than 20 minutes. She was in the hospital 3 nights and finally was out on Monday night. We are blessed that we got her in to the hospital because she would of had serious problems if I did not take her to the doctor on Friday. She is back with her mother in Idaho Falls and I hope she is doing better. Thankfully, Amy did come up to relieve me from staying at the hospital 24 hours a day and that I could hang out with the kids more. I took the night shift because I can tolerate no sleep and she took the day shift. It was very difficult to sleep when you have nurses and doctors come in every hour at night to take vitals.

My precious Emily sleeping. She would not go to bed most nights until almost 1 a.m. I think it was because of the inhaler treatments would wind her up. So we would watch Disney movies until she was tired. During the day, she would take long naps.