RSV Blues

We took Clara and Laken to Urgent Care on the morning of Sunday, Jan 24th. Laken was diagnosed right away with a double ear infection. Clara was not running a fever and her lungs sounded wet. They swabbed her nose right away to test for RSV. Then, sent us down to x-ray to get a chest x-ray. I extremely detest x-rays for babies. I had try to hold her still with arms up over her head while I was wearing the lead vest thing. We had to do them twice and I thought the x-ray tech was a mean, crabby lady. Excuse me, but we had a hungry 3 week old on our hands! Then, waiting what seemed like forever for the rsv test to come back. The chest x-ray looked fine. We finally got the rsv test back, positive. We waited another hour or so for a nurse to come down to urgent care to escort us to our room. It seemed like forever to get all registered for our hospital stay. We put Clara in a little infant gown and they brought us a little OB bassinet. They hooked her up to an oxygen monitor, got all her vitals and started her on nebulizer steriod treatments. These would take place every 4 hours with nurses checking her vitals and lung sounds every so many hours as well. The would also suction our her little nose every so often, too. She was miserable and uncomfortable. I was stressed, uncomfortable and lonely to say the least. The next morning they placed her on oxygen with the little things going into her nostrils. They had to put some adhesives on her little cheeks to keep the oxygen thing around her face. When it was time for us to be discharged the nurse did not want to peel them off for fear they would rip her precious skin off. So she advised me to wait a few days and try to soften them up with bath water. I hope RSV stays far, far away from us!

Clara's adhesives from her oxygen.

The red spots the adhesives left on her cute little face.