Our poor baby Creed was hospitalized for RSV on Tuesday, February 2nd. Creed had been struggling with a bad cold and cough for a few days and had already had 2 visits to the doctors office. On Tuesday when Greg got home from work, I told him that I felt like Creed was worse and that he needed to be taken to the doctor to have his oxygen checked. Greg took him over to the doctor's office and his oxygen level was 80%. The doctor sent him directly to the hospital to have his oxygen checked again because he thought maybe his machine was not reading the levels correctly. Sure enough his oxygen level ranged from about 75-80%. They told us we couldn't take him home and that he would have to be admitted to the hospital. They got him on oxygen and settled in and did an RSV wash and he seemed to be doing better. Around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday morning Creed took a turn for the worse. Creed's heart rate skyrocketed and ranged from 275-300 bpm...his room was suddenly full of multiple nurses who were working on him and trying to bring his heart rate down. They had to put a bag of ice on his face and wait until he would have a certain cry that would shock his system back to a normal heart rate. I lost count of how many times we had to do this, but if I had to guess, I would say it happened around 50 times. One of the nurses called his doctor and another pediatrician in the area and they arrived at the hospital very quickly. His heart rate did this for 4 hours. It was the most scary experience of my life. I felt like my baby could die at any second. I knew it was serious when at one point I walked out of the room to catch my breath and saw the crash cart right next to his door. The doctor's had to make a call to Primary Children's Hospital and what treatment would be the best to help Creed. They decided to put him on a beta blocker (heart medicine) to see if this would keep his heart in a stable range. The medicine kicked into his system around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday morning and his heart has done great ever since.
Call it mother's intuition or the promptings of the spirit, but I am just so grateful we took him to the hospital when we did. If we hadn't, our little Creed probably would have died at home from cardiac arrest that night. Creed stayed in the hospital for 5 days and was able to come home on oxygen and a heart monitor. We now have to see a pediatric cardiologist from Primary Childrens and have an echo cardiogram done to see what is going on with his heart. We are hoping it might just be some strange side effect of the RSV, but it could be a condition he was born with and the RSV just made it known to us. Creed will stay on the beta blocker (heart medicine) until all his testing is done and they figure out what made his heart react the way it did.
We are hoping that Creed continues to get better quickly and that we can get him off the oxygen soon. We love you Creed and are so thankful for your life here on earth.
