my poor, sick baby. :(

Brecken is sick. :( Friday night/Saturday morning, he was up at 1, 2, 3, 5, 5:45, and 7:00. He ate each time, but he didn't seem himself. He was sneezing and coughing and sounded like he had lots of boogers. We loaded him up to go to Loveland and furniture shop, and he did alright all day... A little fussier than normal, but not bad. I figured he was super tired from not sleeping well.

Well, last night, he went to bed at 10 and was up again at 11:30 and was just crying, crying, crying. A really raw sounding cry. He was super stuffed up. I tried to suck the boogers out with the bulb syringe and he wanted nothing to do with that. He ate some, but couldn't hardly breathe. I would put him back in his crib and he'd cry and cry and choke- the drainage from his nose was choking him in his throat. The only way he would sleep was on my chest, since he was on his belly. Josh listened to his lungs with his stethescope and thought they sounded a bit wheezy, so he called Dr. Noton, who was the doctor on call last night. He knew she was still up because the ambulance was called out about a half hour before that and they took the person to the clinic first. Listening to all the symptoms, she thinks it might be a little case of RSV. She said to let him sleep however he wanted (which for the most part was on one of our chests and sometimes he'd be OK sleeping on his side next to us) and to keep an eye on it last night and if it got worse, to call her again. He didn't get worse though. Thank goodness. He was still really stuffy and coughing and sneezing but it didn't get worse. He was up crying for a lot of the night though. Poor guy, just didn't feel good.

Dr. Noton called us at 7:00 this morning to check on Brecken- that was really nice of her. She said she was going to call in a prescription for him to the pharmacy in Rawlins since our pharmacy isn't open on weekends. Josh went to get it. She said it would dry him out and get the gunk out. Josh has been suctioning a lot of gunk from his mouth and his nose both this morning.

So, hopefully this is the worst of it and after getting some medicine he'll begin to feel better. I'm glad tomorrow's babysitter is a nurse whose husband is our PA, so she can keep an eye on it for us too. And hopefully tonight he'll sleep better because after 2 nights of no sleep, I'm a little beat. :)