Kellee's bout with RSV

Kellee started out with what seemed like a cold - runny nose, low fever. In 2 days, that changed to high fever, coughing, headache, no energy. So, we took her to Urgent Care for some better meds. By this time, she had a temp of 105 and her pulse oxygen was down to 90. After a breathing treatment, it came up, but then went right back down. They took xrays of her chest, looking for pneumonia - nothing. They did a flu test - negative. They determined that she was not stable and sent her to the ER, not by car, by ambulance.

We were at Methodist Children's ER for about 9 hours, more xrays, blood tests, IV fluids because she was dehydrated, breathing treatments. The final diagnosis was RSV or Bronchiolitis. After some steroids, we finally got to bring her home. She has to take steroids for a month and we just have to watch and wait. She's out of school for the rest of the week. She is feeling much better now, but still coughing. It was a little scary for a bit there, but I'm just so glad the nurses and doctor at Urgent Care were paying attention and didn't just send her home with a prescription.

She wanted a picture of her glowing finger - this was the pulse Ox meter. ET - PHONE HOME!

This is Kellee in her fun little hospital bed at the ER. She had more wires hooked up to her than her dad's computer room. It was crazy!