Home with O's

After monitoring Maddie for 24 hours at Children's, the consensus was she needs O's (she's on 1/2-1 liter of oxygen depending on her sats/coughing episodes/pucking) and just needs to have time to get over this bad virus. She did have a pretty good night last night and after a chest x-ray this morning, it was ruled out that this is affecting her lungs or heart. It's just a respiratory virus and leaves her hypoxic (looking blue, low sats, w/ harder time breathing). So the decision was left up to us: oxygen at home or stay in the hospital until she could come off it......so we're home. I did go back and forth on this but she kept pretty stable with the support of oxygen and is drinking and peeing enough for now. I don't feel so hot myself and I know we can all get well faster here at home without the risk of catching something else while in the hospital! Here's a few pictures of our girlie from this week.

We all looked/felt like this last night...a little tired maybe?!?

Here's the weird rash (and a little food she was saving for later I guess). This is after the hives/mosquito bites had tamed down. Her arm in the above picture is the aftermath of itching it sooo much- looks awful.

Thanks for checking on us and thinking of Miss Maddie. Please say extra prayers for a sweet little heart friend of ours, Lindsay. She's getting her angel heart tonight!