I spoke to the nurse and heard Ava was gagging much more and was very tired. She was up early so I thought that might have been the problem. Nope - that wasn't it. By 5pm she was on 1/2 liter of O2. I said she was getting sick and we had to call the pediatrician. Thankfully, Anthony was home for the funeral and after testing to see if Ava needed O2 (before calling the doc), she was able to be off the O2. He went to bed and around 10pm I was trying to call the nurse. She finally got back to me and said that Ava was in respiratory distress. The nurse was really upset and from what she was saying, it seemed as if Ava was going to the ER immediately. She couldn't get a rattle out of her chest, she was on 1 liter of O2 and her heart rate was 180 and breath rate ranged from 40s-70s. She couldn't get Anthony up but she wasn't knocking on the door. I was so scared at this point cause I wasn't there and couldn't assess the situation. Finally, Anthony got up and he called the pediatrician. The pediatrician said to go to the ER. The nurse was getting all of her stuff ready when we decided to call Lung Center. Anthony called and thankfully Ava's doctor was on-call and he was very calm and said it was just a cold. He faxed over a prescription to a 24 hour Walgreens. At this point Ava was up and happy and very smiley. Thank God. This was around midnight and I could finally go to sleep but was still praying like crazy. The doc said we didn't have to come home tomorrow either so the girls could enjoy Disney. Oh the "Adventures of Ava."
Thanking God for Ava and praying that she is healed and protected...
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