Piper is not feeling too hot

We found out yesterday that Piper hadn’t been feeling too hot, since Monday night. They said that she was having respiratory distress, and would be sending her to Columbia, if she could’t stabilize by 8. We got a call shortly after 7 that she had worsened and that they had some parametics taking her to St. Joes in Paterson NJ, because they didn’t want to risk taking her all the way back to NY.

It is always tough to gauge exactly how sick she is, until we see her ourselves. When we arrived in NJ, we could tell that she was pretty sick. Her heart rate was high 180s, occasionally breaking 200. Luckily she started to calm down pretty quickly when they started to treat her in the ER. By the time they got her in the PICU, her breathing was under control and she was so tuckered out that she fell asleep.

They got her going on a full spread of antibiotics and are actually sedating her now. Normally I hate it when they sedate her, but she hates having so many IVs. So they have to restrain her little arms, so that she doesn’t tear them out. In this situation I think it is proabably a good idea that she is sedated. Because otherwise she would be pisssssed.

Hopefully we will be going back to Columbia, after the Dr.s round. Poor little squirt. She probably got sick because she was bummed that we were going to run off to VT for a fun weekend while she was stuck in the armpit of New Jersey. I can’t blame the little squirt.

I apologize if the formatting is a little off. I’m writing this from the B-berry.