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It has been a hard week to say the least. 

Wednesday night, we were back in the Emergency Room because her breathing was still very labored. After 4 hours of screaming, crying, and misery, Kaitlyn was admitted to Beaumont. Once we got to the room, she was inconsolable and her breathing was becoming worse. She got so worked up that she vomited everywhere and gave us a horrible scare (as evidenced by me running down the hospital hallway screaming for a doctor)..

The doctors decided that she needed an IV if she wasn't able to keep food down. It took over an hour to put in the IV because they couldn't find a vein. When they brought her back from the procedure room, with the IV in her foot, it was terrible. They had taped the IV to her foot with a straight board to keep her from kicking it out. During the night, she continued to be inconsolable. After an hour or so (mind you this is like 4am..) I looked at her foot and it was swollen about 2 sizes. I immediately called for help and they quickly took the IV out because it was leaking and her foot was as hard as a rock. Now it had been a whole 24 hours without any sleep for Kaitlyn.

The next day, she tested positive for influenza which caused a horrible episode of croup (narrowing of the airway). They also found a narrowing of her trachea in a chest x-ray. The hospital staff put signs on our door saying "contamination possible" and "take precautions when entering". We were not allowed to leave our hospital room!!! Try keeping a 1 year old in 1 room for 4 days..not fun.

She received breathing treatments every 2 hours and steriods to help open her airway. Finally on Saturday, we were cleared to leave. She improved slightly on Saturday and Sunday but today seems to be struggling again.

We have an appointment with a pediatric lung specialist today so hopefully he will be able to get to the bottom of this. We are crossing our fingers to be able to travel to California on Friday.

Stay tuned...