Saturday, January 17, 2009

Poor Little Zaney!

Friday I took Zane into the doctor because he had a cold and his breathing wasn't great. Shallow and rapid. Anyway, they put the pulse/oxygen thing on his finger and it was like 86 or something...bad. So the doctor started giving him a breathing treatment. We were there forever. He had to have 4 treatments and finally got to 91. Still not great but okay. He wanted to put him in the hospital if we couldn't get it into the 90s. So he prescribed meds and steroids and we had to get a chest x-ray. Results=pneumonia. We talked with another doctor friend who wasn't to satisfied with Zane's pulse /ox rate called another doctor friend of his and got us into him. This other Doc. puts kids in the hospital with rates below 93. We went to him and he gave more meds too and we finally got Zane's number up to like 95-96. Yea! This all took all day. Poor Zane looked horrible. Apparently the human body likes its oxygen. We have a follow up appointment on Monday. He is already doing much better and is as wild as ever. He was sad he missed going to a birthday party and missed playing in his first basketball game.

1 comment:

Sadie said...

Ah man that stinks!! Glad he's doing better. Tell him to keep flexing his muscles. We may need a pic of that. We haven't seen it for 1 year and 8 months. EEK! To bad the pounds don't fly off my butt as fast as the time flies.