On Tuesday November 20th, around 11pm, Kinley was asleep in her bassinet. Kinley started to cough, then she puked, and coughed some more. She then began to cry. Her cry sounded really strange. I got out of bed to check on her. Her face was covered in puke. She continued to cry. Jeff went to grab her some clean clothes. When he came back, I started to undress her, she continued to cry. As soon as Jeff saw her stomach and the way she was breathing, he realized she had aspirated on her puke. We called our neighbor to come over so we could take her into the ER at Holy Family.
Once at Holy Family, she was taken back to a room pretty quickly. They drew blood and did a chest x-ray to check for signs of pneumonia. Both the blood work and x-ray came back normal. Kinley's heart rate and temp were both elevated though. (200bpm for her heart rate and 102 for her temp.) The ER doctor wanted to keep her for the next 24 hours to monitor her to make sure her heart rate and temperature returned to normal levels and that she did not develop pneumonia. Holy Family doesn't have much of a peds department, so at 4am, Wednesday morning, we were transfered to Sacred Heart.
Kinley did well all day Wednesday, but her heart rate and temp stayed elevated, so the peds doctor wanted to keep her there for yet another night. Jeff and Rich Nelson (a member of our ward) gave Kinley a priesthood blessing Wednesday evening. Around 11pm that night, Kinley's heart rate and temp returned to normal levels and she still was not showing any signs of phenomia.
Thursday (Thanksgiving) Kinley was discharged around noon. She has been diagonsed with silent reflux and now takes medication once a day that she absolutly hates!
For about a week after this lovely "event", Kinley's voice and cry were really horse sounding. She seems to be doing much better now.
In this video, you can kind of hear how raspy she was.
