Hayden developed a cough and congestion on Saturday.  He sounded terrible and would cry everytime he coughed.  His difficulty breathing kept waking him so he couldn’t get any sleep.

We thought about bringing him in Saturday night but decided to wait until Sunday morning.  I took him in Sunday early morning and ended up spending the whole day there.  He had to have his diaper tested for blood, a platelet count, chest x-rays, and an exam.  He ended up having no blood in his stool, his platelets we at 44k, and nothing appearing in his x-rays.  His diagnosis is an upper resperatory  inflamation, or crupe.  His immune system does appear to be fighting it because his white cell count is elevated.

He received multiple doses of medicine through a nebulizer, some type of stronger stuff that can only be done at the hospital, and oral doses of the steroid Prednesone.   This helped a great deal and made him sound much better.  He was up multiple times last night but he did get some rest.  We can continue to give him his normal nebulizer treatments which also help.
Tomorrow morning at 9 am he goes in for a platelet transfusion.

rb

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