Another follow-up phone call

This morning I was beginning to make m&m cookies to take out camping this weekend, when I got a phone call from the Ava's pediatrician. She told me she got the official radiologist report from Ava's chest xray from Monday and it confirmed she has right sided middle and lower lobe pneumonia as well as extensive pneumonitis. The dr wanted us to come in for an IM antibiotic injection, so we made the appointment and went in. When we got there Ava was working harder to breathe and having suprasternal and subcostal retractions (not good). Based on Ava's breathing and her drop in weight down to 7 lbs 14 oz., the dr wanted us to go to Gritman for IV antibiotics. As I was getting everything ready to go to Gritman, the dr called us after talking to a pulmonologist/immunologist and the spokane dr wanted us to come to Sacred Heart. I finished gathering up our stuff, and Ava and I drove to Sacred Heart Children's hospital. We got to the hospital around 4:30pm.





We were told to go through the ER so they could start her IV, draw labs, and get a chest xray. We were in the ER for about 3 hours before coming up to the pediatric floor room 327, just 2 doors down from our last room.

Around 9:45pm my parents got to the room. About the same time, I was noticing Ava's arm getting puffy at her IV site, so I told the nurse in plenty of time since she had antibiotics due at midnight.


She tried to flush it, but was unable, then she brought in another nurse to try and flush it. The nurse undid the tape and repositioned the IV catheter then started to flush it, and her arm started to puff up. The nurse kept saying, "it flushes easily" and kept pushing more fluids about 5ml. It wasn't until I said her arm is puffing up before she even noticed and she was still pushing fluids. I was SO MAD!!! A couple nurses looked at her veins, and eventually they sent a PICU nurse to start her IV. I was so thankful, because I was still fuming inside!! The PICU nurse was awesome, she started a new IV in her foot, and also utilized my dad to hold her transluminator while she started it. He was pretty proud he got to help with her IV.

Once her IV was started my parents went to the hotel room and we went to bed.