Had a beautiful Christmas. Spent Christmas Eve with the Quintanilla Family. Exchanged gifts, had wonderful food, and had some laughs. Christmas Day was fun taking turns unwrapping presents and such. Girls got many neat things from Santa, us, and family and friends.
However, Christmas Eve we noticed Kelsey had started a cough. The cough got deeper and she started getting irritable and then a fever by Christmas evening. After getting through the Holiday weekend, we took her to a pediatric doctor come yesterday (Tues). Kelsey has RSV. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is like a serious cold. Kelsey had trouble breathing so the doctor gave her a breathing treatment right there in the office, which it did help (only 30% of patients with RSV actually get relief from breathing treatments). So we were sent home owners of a new breathing machine, with $80 worth of medicine to go in machine, and need to do 15 minute treatments 3X a day. Basically it is a mask over her face that she breathes in the medicine. Kelsey had a fever of 104.5 last night, so she is having a rough time between fever, trying to breathe and no appetite, and if she does try to eat, she can’t breathe as she eats. Doctor said she needs to stay home 7-10 days since she is very contagious. Also, this could last 22 days. She may not have a fever that long, but her cough could linger that long. Hopefully Kelsey will get relief soon.
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