While we have Aiden’s breathing improved. He’s still labouring. We’ve also got him on treatments that tend to race the heart a little. That’s right… vibrating toddler. So much fun.
The Doctor’s opinion is that Aiden is going to be getting a room at Chez-Healthmart tonight.
That way we can monitor how things are doing for him.
I will post a phone number on a fairly tight filter. I can also be reached via cell and IM this evening.
More as we know more.
Thank you for the well wishes
Some of you may notice, I’m not performing Mass today as planned.
aiden_freeman had a very bad night with his breathing. Coughing throughout the night and a lot of laboured breathing.
Our standard routine for this is to bring him into the hospital for evaluation. They give him a stronger treatment of Albuterol… Do X-Rays to check for Pneumonia, and then discharge him once the treatment has started to kick in.
The usual procedure is to continue the Albuterol and apprise his pediatrician if things get worse. Normally, this does the trick.
Today however, the treatment began to wear off as we were leaving the hospital. It’s not supposed to do that.
Within an hour he was back to the state he was in this morning. Heavy wheezing, laboured breathing… and now there was a fever.
We headed back to the hospital and I put the call into the pediatrician. We also pulled jonah777 who’d been on standby since the first hospital alert this morning.
Hospital clocked him in at 101º F. Which is enough to have us doing more to check.
He’s since been given more Albuterol. And some Tylenol and some steroid. This may take 4-6 hours.
Current prognosis is that he may get himself his first overnight stay at the hospital.
We’ll keep people posted… And I’ll be online via the usual mechanisms.
One of the side effects of having a toddler is that after about a 25-30 yr hiatus I am regularly watching “Sesame Street” again.
To be able to watch Sesame Street after a hiatus requires coming back to it for about 2 weeks before you actually return from hiatus. So.. watch it as a kid… watch it some time in your young adult hood… then watch it as a parent.
Why?
Sesame Street has to change. It has to stay modern with educational methods as well as popular culture. This means that it’s not your Sesame Street anymore.
Effectively, you need to pass through your own personal Kübler-Ross model with the show before you can move on and appreciate it again.
For those not familiar… to summarize:
The stages are:
So, now you’ve accepted the Children’s Television Workshop… the Sesame Workshop back into your life.
Unfortunately, now it’s more like Bullwinkle. Sure, it’s meant for kids.. But there’s so much subversive humour hiding under the covers. Pirate’s love F-Words
And this is what leads me to realize, I’m a very bad man.
One of the new characters on Sesame Street is a wide-mouthed monster named Murray. Last season he introduced every episode by discussing the common word for the day. This season Murray has a new segment.
The segment is called, “Murray has a little lamb.” Murray and his spanish speaking lamb travel around the city learning about different things. Murray’s lamb takes him on an adventure with only a few Spanish words as clues as to where the adventure will take them. Murray learns some Spanish words along the way.
And I looked at it. And my brain went south. Far south. See, I’ve lived too many places and as a result I’ve got political incorrectness coming out of my ears. I am a horrible person because I see this sign of Murray following his Spanish speaking lamb and could only think of one thing.
SFW: Sure you can look, but only if you’ll try to respect me in the morning
