Camden continued............

..............when Camden was bout 4 weeks he started getting a cough, i kind of just let it go cause thats all he was doing. Well the cough came back at about 5 1/2 weeks and his breathing got bad and I had noticed when he breathed, he was breathing so hard, he was retracting. Which is when he breathes, his stomach area his pulling up under his ribs. So right under the ribs you can see it just pulling really hard. I had learned when he was in the NICU that that was bad. His breathing was also really short and hard breaths. He had thrown up a couple of times and then just hadnt really wanted to eat. I had my 6 week Dr visit so I decided since I was up I was just going to take him in to get checked. Cause he looked bad. The night before I slept in the other room with him and had the humidifier going thinking that might help, well we were up all night long casue I dint dare go to sleep and he was having a really hard time breathing and not eating at all. I got up, got packed (for a day) got the kids up and we were on the road by 5 a.m. The entire drive i was completely paranoid. I had an appt made for him at 10, I took him in and the Dr said that he was fine. His lungs were clear, he just had a little cold. He sent me to get labs just to make sure it wasnt anything else and those came back fine. I was relieved but wasnt. I knew something was wrong with him. I drove to Cedar that afternoon to go to girls night and the entire time I just knew he wasnt okay. I had my dad give him a blessing that night we "went to bed" and he just got worse in a matter of hours. The next morning he was pale, around his eyes and mouth were blue so immediately called my mother-in-law and she was in meetings with his pediatrician and she was going to talk to him. They called back and he told me to come straight to the hospital. The minute we got him there and out of his car seat, he all but crashed on the nurses. It was the scariest moment of my life. The Dr came in and checked him and within those hours of seeing him the day before everything was different. They poked him so many times trying to get an IV in but he was so dehydrated they had a hard time. Again, it didnt fase him. He was so tired and sick the pokes didnt bother him at all. He ended up with them in his head which didnt look good but was the only place the could get one in. They did multiple tests on him to check for anything and everything. They were saying it was RSV but the test came back negative so they sent the labs to Salt Lake to get a better reading and after days of waiting and my little guy being hooked back up to everything, the test came back posotive for RSV. We were so relieved to find out what it was. Its amazing what a common cold can do to a baby. His Dr said that he was in the top 2 of the sickest babies they've had admitted. I could have gone without knowing that. He said that I caught it early. I hate saying this but im glad he was in the NICU for that week cause it taught me alot of things to look for on babies with respitory problems. So we ended up spending 9 days in the hospital, again only planning on staying for a night turned into a 2 week stay. Back to juggling my older 2, my sick 6 week old, my sanity and no husband for part of the time. Needless to say the first 7 weeks of Camdens life was definately a trial. But with lots of prayers everything was okay! We had to stay a couple extra days after being discharged so I could take him to the out patient clinic to get his lungs sucked, which he hated. It was so hard seeing him back in the hospital hooked up to everything again, but I knew from the beginning everything would be okay. I know that blessing my dad gave him was also for me and my piece of mind throughout the enire thing.

Leaving the hospital!




We are so happy we have him in our lives, it was a struggle getting him here and a struggle keeping him here, but couldnt be more thankful for this little guy. It doesnt take much to get him to smile and he loves his big brother. Hes a little unsure of Quin and the loudness she brings but she adores him.....maybe to much sometimes. We couldnt be happier to have him and everything weve gone through keeping him here has been so worth it!