Easter Sunday in Salt Lake
Grandma & Grandpa Mortenson
All Dressed up for church
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Then on April 15th after a follow up trip to the Dr. because Hailey was a such a sick little girl......her oxygen level was so low they said we needed to send her to the hospital for oxygen.....next thing we know she's being admitted with RSV and then it turned into pneumonia! She was in the hospital for 6 long days......it's an experience I will never forget.....there is nothing worse than watching your baby so sick. She did not do well with all of the IV's and needles.....it took 4 adults to hold her down to try and put an IV in. We ended up taking her to Provo to Utah Valley Hospital in the middle of her stay to have them sedate her and put in a PICC line for all of her medicine. She was on 3 liters of oxygen for several days. She had lots of visitors and got all kinds of fun things to play with. They even brought in a WII and we played that during the end of her stay. We were very happy when the Dr. said she could go home!
After we came home from the hosptial we had to have the home health nurse come and show us how to giver her treatments through her PICC line. We had to do it twice a day - and as you can see she didn't really love it too much! We tried to keep her mind off of it by coloring and reading while it was being done (it took about 1/2 hour each time). Grandma Mortenson came and stayed with us for 2 days and played and played with Hailey - she loved it!Mother's Day
After keeping her out of school for a total of 3 weeks and not going to any kind of store I finally sent her back to school for 2 days.......and on Mother's Day we were back at the ER because her fever was 103 and she had croup!!!!!
So.....we had another week of keeping her home and she had to miss Preschool graduation - I think Mom was more upset than Hailey was....good thing she has another year of Preschool.
I am happy to report that today we went to the park and she played and had fun like a normal 4 year old!!!! Here's to a healthy, fun summer!
