Thursday, March 27th...
Henry had tae kwon do. This is a picture of Min when we got home. He had been given a green sucker and ate it on the way home. You can't see it on his coat, but it's covered with chewed up sucker bits. If you look closely at his face, you'll see green sucker all around his mouth, on his foreheard, by his left eyebrown and cheek, and even some in his left ear. We just laughed at him....and took a bunch of pictures.
Friday, March 29th...Our day started out normally. Travis had taken the day off so we took Henry to school, Charles to preschool, and then had a date (with Min) at Panera. Andrew was running a little fever (100 degrees) when we got home, so we gave him Tylenol. That was at about 10:30. At about 1 p.m., I was rocking him for a nap and he started seizing. Travis was downstairs giving Henry a haircut. Min was having ineffecient breaths and was starting to turn gray. We called 911. By the time the fire truck got here, he was breathing but not responding to much. The ambulance came and we took him to the ER. His temp. still wasn't very high...about 101. They did a chest X-ray to rule pneumonia. When we got back, he had another seizure. THe doctor was right there. It only lasted about 2 1/2 minutes, but seemed like forever. He had an oxygen mask on and then they started an I.V., took blood, and admitted us to peds for the night in case he had anymore. They also stuck a monitor onto his toe to measure heartrate, oxygen sats, etc. Of course, this meant that he was actually attached to a machine by a long cord...However, he was not pleased and kept saying, 'stuck, stuck.' Thankfully, he didn't have anymore seizures. But, he did start running a high fever needing both tylenol and motrin to keep in check. He also decided that he did not really like any medical professional who came into his room. He would cry and say, 'no no no no.' Our resident just started standing on the other side of the room. He was also coughing so we were restricted to our room. Min wasn't at all pleased about that. He would stand at the door and say, 'out, out.'
Coudln't resist a few pictures in those oh-so-cute hospital jammies.
Playing with the buttons on the bed. So...we were restricted to our room...came in by ambulance so didn't bring any toys...and, nobody brought us anything to play with. So the buttons onthe bed helped....a little.
Then we had to move on to the telephone. I'm fairly confident he wasn't able to call any foreign countries. You have to dial 9 first, and we haven't received a telephone bill....yet. We made it home the next day (Saturday). Min and I were tired because though he slept fairly well...I did not. Every time he twitched I thought he was having another seizure. The nurses came in every 4 hours to take vitals, but I had to ask for extra medication to control his fever.
He started having a terrible cough when we got home. We started giving him albuterol on Sunday night which seemed to help. Took him back in to peds on Monday because of his cough. Had another chest x-ray, prescription for albuterol.... On Tuesday, he was working hard to breathe. STILL had a terrible fever...took him back to peds. Albuterol by nebulizer. Started to come around a little Thursday. At least we could control his fever with only TYlenol. Needed albuterol until about Saturday.
This pictures must have been from Wednesday or so.
Eating Dad's birthday cake. He HAS to use a fork and...well....he doesn't always get the food to his mouth. His fingers work really well as a second resort.
Charles playing t-ball. This picture was taken out the window so a little hazy. Min wasn't feeling up to going outside.
Henry told me he had found a rat in the little shed under the slide. I refused to leave the deck. Travis went over there and saw that it was only a mouse. This is the Great Mouse Search party.
He loves to do this. Today I helped him do a somersault. Wow!! What a thrill!! He had to do it about 100 times....okay...maybe more like 15 : )
The boys in the Gator. Min learned to like it, but isn't quite as fond of it as the other two.
Min and The Brothers going for a ride. If you enlarge the picture, you'll see that he isn't really that happy. And, he's got really great hair.
And, this was from yesterday. He was very sick for a few days. But finally, we see our little Min coming back to us with his smiley, expressive face, funny words, and activity.