Clinic Visit Turned Hospital Stay

This morning Lynnea had another cardiology visit at the U of M with Dr. Gruenstein. We told him that things haven't improved since we were in a week and a half ago. She still has some wheezing in both lungs; she clears when we give her nebulizer treatments, but the wheezing returns within a few hours. Her sat's have been running a little lower than her norm over the past week at home, and this morning when we were in clinic she was sitting in the low 60's. She had another echocardiogram this morning, and Gruenstein said it looked OK, but it was pretty obvious that Jim, the echo tech, did not think it looked good at all. Also, Lynnea is not gaining weight the way that she should. All of these factors managed to get us admitted to the hospital. The plan is to run viral cultures on her to make sure she doesn't have any viruses (they still haven't swabbed her; it's been an "on again, off again" order all day, and it still hasn't gotten done). Even though she doesn't appear to have any sort of illness -- no runny nose, no coughing, no fever -- it's nice to run the cultures because it means she gets a private room at least for 24 hours. She tentatively has another heart catherization scheduled for Friday (I don't have a time, but I heard she'll probably be second case, so not first thing in the morning) to get a look at her pulmonary vein to make sure that it's not closing up on her again (it most likely is). Rumor has it that we should expect to hang out in the hospital at least until after her heart catherization, so it looks like we'll be here all week. Lynnea doesn't enjoy being here, and it's challenging to keep her entertained.