Thank GOD and thank YOU for your prayers. Ian is back home sleepy soundly in his own bed after 2 very scary days..... He had started getting sick Sunday morning, but we thought maybe it was just allergies. Rob stayed home with him (no daycare) on Monday and he continued to get worse and pretty much stopped eating and drinking. By 5:30am on Tuesday, we had decided it was time to take him to the ER.
We took him to Sherman Hospital in Woodstock. Everyone there was fantastic. Nothing like seeing the entire Emergency Room staff turn their heads and look when we walked in and he was gasping for air and crying. Everyone rushed to our sides. Normally, you can sit in the ER for hours and hours.... we were in and out of there in an hour and a half! The doc took one look at him and said "we don't have a pedi department good enough for him, we need to air lift to him a better hospital."
The WORST feeling in the world is watching your 11 month old son (or any age, I'm sure) strapped onto an adult sized curney, tubes sticking out of him all over, being loaded into a helicopter and Life Flighted away from you. They were great enough to let us walk him out to the heli pad and Rob and I both stood there and cried watching them take off.
We had to drive an hour to get to the hospital. The longest drive of my life.
The staff at the Rockform Memorial hospital was great too! They really took care of us, and God lead us to the right place.
Long story short - we are back home! Ian is doing much better, still sick, but a totally different child than he was Tuesday morning. At one point, the nurses all started calling his name (at the ER) because he was just staring off into space. I think his body was shutting down. At that point, I started crying. When they said they needed to Life Flight, of course, that brough the tears too.
Thank God Daddy is an RT, cause is able to keep an eye on Ian and knows how to do it all.
As I was putting Ian to bed tonight, the tears came back again. Man, I love that little guy SO very much.
Being a mother can HURT like hell, but it's the BEST thing in the world too.
Thank you all for your prayers! Please keep praying that he continues to gain strength and get better.
(ohhhh, we really have no idea what he has! One doc said pneumonia and one said no!!!)
