Kaycee was home for about 4 weeks straight and then she seemed to get a bit snuffly. Obviously this was a sign she had caught a bug or something and from past experience we were a bit anxious to let her ride it out. We have help from the Community Nurse due to her being on home oxygen. So I rang them and asked if they could bob round just for a fresh pair of eyes point of view.
As soon as they came they knew she wasn’t right. They put her oxygen saturations monitor on and she was sitting low 80’s. I could feel my body tense up and I felt sick. The nurses told me that they would need to get her to the hospital. The rung the ambulance because she is on the direct admission list the ambulance knows of Kaycee and knows to come ASAP.
On arriving at the hospital we were directed straight to a ward. She was admitted into a cubicle and seen by the doctors. All the doctors knew Kaycee because of neonates so that was probably the only advantage of being on this ward. It was hard to adjust to how they worked because on a neonatal unit they were closely watched. Here you were left to defend for yourself, well not that extreme.
Kaycee had loads of tests done, poked all day and then they finally decided she had bronchiolitis. As we have learnt over the months every baby admitted to Oldham has this. At the time we were heartbroken. She had already been through so much and to top it off here we was back in OLDHAM. All the memories from that horrible day were hanging over me.
Kaycee’s oxygen went up sky high but they just put a mask on her, she tolerated this quite well. She was treated with antibiotics and within the week stay she was stable and back in her normal amount of oxygen to go home. So off we back went home.
10 days passed and Kaycee seemed to be back to her normal self.
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