Kyara Dzenis

Kyara Dzenis

Friday, February 26, 2010

Still Vomiting

No school this week for Kyara. She is still vomiting and she is still weak. Her heart rate is much higher than normal and she has crackles (yucky sounds) in her lungs. She is not peeing as much and her poops are full of mucus.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Still Sick

Skylar is better, she seemed to have the 8 hour vomiting bug. Kassey is better, but still has a cough and a little runny nose. Of course, Kyara is the one we are really worried about. Not that the other girls are not important, but for them a virus is just that...a virus. It comes, it will go, and they will be fine. Annoying while it is here, but really not a big deal.

Kyara is still sick. She is sleeping about 20-22 hours a day. She has a terrible cough and congestion. She is coughing so hard that it makes her vomit. I was up the other night suctioning her a ton. Even with the suction machine, I still had to change her sheets and her clothes 3-4 times during the night. I suctioned 100-200 ml each time she would vomit. Considering she doesn't get food in her stomach (because she is J-tube fed into her intestines), this is alot of fluid. Kyara's nurse came to see her the on Tuesday and said her lung sounds were diminshed on the left side and that she sounds "junky". Pneumonia is a concern. She is not peeing as much and she appears more swollen or "puffy" to me than before.

It is excruciating to watch her gasp for air when she is coughing and gagging. She is struggling.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Sick House













Kassey's 2nd Birthday Party Pictures!


Starting last week, Kyara has had an upper respiratory infection. I noticed her coughing more at the beginning of the week and by Thursday, the school was calling to say that she had slept through the entire morning (not at ALL like her!) and they were concerned. So I went to the school to pick her up. I talked to her home nurse and she came over to see Kyara that afternoon. She said it was an upper respiratory infection and gave us some instructions. Since it seems to be viral, antibiotics are not going to work. Kyara has not improved since then. In fact, I think she looks worse. She is pale, still sleeping all day and night, when she is not coughing so hard she is throwing up. I am changing her shirts many times a day because of how much she is throwing up. My concern is that she is not able to get it all out and the vomit goes back down into her
lungs. She has these times when she is gagging so hard to the "stuff" that she will turn blue and really struggle to get it up. Kyara is definitely sick. Yuck! Yikes!

Kassey has also been sick. Hers seems to come and go, though. She is the typical child; when she feels sick, you can tell. I thought she was over it, then yesterday, before church she threw up at Waffle House. All over her velvet dress. Well, that was the last of the puking for her, at least.

Then last night Skylar said she didn't want to eat dinner. What?! By the end of the night, she was throwing up, too. We ended up blowing up the air mattress and putting it in the living room for her to sleep on. (She has a loft bed, and I didn't think she would make it out of bed in time, or safely!) So I "slept" in the living room with her last night. This morning she is finally feeling better. The vomiting stopped around 3:00 in the morning.

I am spending the day today washing EVERYTHING that can go the in washing machine and Lysoling everything else!