January started off with a bang. We were told the house we are renting was going up for sale in March, at the end of our contract. We had 2 months to find another place to live. Well, Josh and I had been planning on buying a house this year, but we had hoped to wait until the summer. But, we decided to buy the house we are renting! We viewed lots of homes but none of which we liked as much, or were as good of a deal as the house we are in. We could have waited and looked more but then we would have been homeless, had to crash with the parents AND move twice. Plus, both of us just felt like, this is home. So it is a little busy as we are working on that process. But we are excited to start making it our own.
So, the other exciting thing is that all of us got a very bad cold. Nolan recovered in 3 days. I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel after 2 weeks. Josh's cough is seemingly neverending. But Bennett, our sweet Bennett, got the worst of it. His breathing started getting really poor and he started showing all-too-familiar signs of respiratory distress. We took him into the ER on Friday, but they sent us home. He got sicker and sicker. We took him in the following Monday to the pulmonologist and she hoped he had gotten over the worst of it and would show improvement. That night and the next day, he was even worse. He couldn't keep anything down, we couldn't keep him hydrated, he was extremely lethargic, he was breathing very quickly and working really hard to breathe. So we took him BACK in to the ER and they admitted him. They did a viral panel and discovered it as RSV. :(
He was at the hospital for 6 days, nearly a week. That first night in the hospital, the virus hit its peak. He had a fever of 103! They put him on oxygen, used a compression vest every 4 hours to shake up mucus in his lungs, suctioned mucus out of his nose and breathing airways, did x rays and discovered the virus had caused bacterial pneumonia, so he got IV antibiotics for that. They also gave him only IV fluids for the few days then g tube feeds then finally solid food at the end of the stay.
We were blessed to have so much help from family and friends. Josh's mom watched Nolan, my mom brought me food in the hospital and visited us, she also took Nolan, my dad visited and brought food, we had friends visit and bring us things at the hospital, we had people bring dinner and many, many people reach out in concern.
When we brought him home, some of the new skills we had learned, he couldn't do. His muscles were weak. But he is slowly learning those skills again.
We are glad to have our funny Bennett back!
Also, it was my mom's birthday so we celebrated that with her.
On to February!
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