Yet Another Hospital

As you know, Molly woke up with a cold on Monday that caused her surgery to be postponed. Well she continued to be fussy and uncomfortable for the following couple days. On Wednesday she was extremely warm and was having some difficulty breathing. Erin took her to the pediatrician, who immediately had her sent to the hospital; Robert Wood Johnson, the fourth she has been in since birth. Her fever was 103.1 and her breathing was incredibly labored. The diagnosis upon admission was congestive heart failure. She was treated in the ER, and within an hour or so, she was settled in a room in the pediatric ICU. Erin and I were able to stay with her the whole time. They treated her fever, gave her antibiotics for infections, and put her on a machine that assisted her breathing (she was breathing on her own all along).

Thursday started out fine. When she woke up her fever had gone down and her breathing was stable. She got a little bit upset (because a phlebotomist stuck a needle in her while she was sleeping) and ended up with a spiking fever and needing breathing assistance again. By the afternoon she was sleeping comfortably and her fever was once again working its way down.

As of this morning her fever was gone and she was breathing completely on her own. She is still being treated with antibiotics, and she is being monitored closely, but she seems to be progressing. If she gets healthy enough in the next couple days she will be having surgery Tuesday, as planned.