Memorial Day Madness-Another Hospitalization for Zev and Orli is walking 100%

Ok, it happened again so soon after the first.
We decided to go to VT last minute for Memorial Day weekend. We had originally thought to go to Stowe VT and go bicycling with the twins. We called L and H to let them know we'd be passing through and they offered for us to stay at their house. When we got there we discovered that Stowe was another 2 hrs from their house. Our children free era memories told us that it really wasn't that far.
Anyhoo, we cycled near Manchester on a back country road with the twins in our new Chariot bike caddy that turns into a jogging stroller. The kids loved it. We had dinner with L, H and their son Cos and in the evening we discussed how we needed to take a kiddie picture with Cos in the middle of the twins on a chair that we took the first picture several months back. At any rate Cos is still rocking VT with a big crop of hair, adorable..

Then all hell broke loose. Zev had another asthma attack in the middle of the night Sunday into Monday. We had to leave VT abruptly, and head home. It was a good thing H lent us his belkin power inverter for our car so we could plug it into the nebulizer we just happened to bring.

We got to Childrens' again, and he was given meds and admitted again. It sucked. Around 5ish, mommy was feeding Zev over the crib rail and noticed that one of his pupils was super dilated and the other was normal. We alerted the nurses, who alerted the Docs, who called the neurologists, who recommended he have a CT scan. Their thought was better safe than sorry, and wanted to rule out a brain injury. This meant Zev had to get an IV installed, poor thing cried the whole time, the first try didn't work at all, the second worked but was pretty bloody, good thing Daddy didn't see it. So they gave him some Ativan to calm him down and they put him in the CT scanner. The machine was so huge compared to his little little body as he laid on the platform as it passed him through the eye of the scanner. Zev was so good and calm and he was just looking at the whirling machinery, his little eyeballs rolling back and forth as he looked around silently. All was fine, he checked out, they then turned to the meds as a culprit. He did well overnight, and the next morning they took him in to see the eye dr. Their diagnosis was the meds given to him in the ER must have sputtered out of the nebulizer and hit him in the eye causing the reaction. Argh!!

So we are dealing with our little asthma patient at home, he's doing fine, playing, sleeping and eating just fine. We just have this issue to deal with and hope we can control it and hope it resolves itself.
Oh and he has yet another ear infection. Yuck.

Let's not forget Orli, Orli has been a good girl through all this upheaval, except she pukes in the car after she eats. One huge milestone to report is that Orli in the last week is 100% walking. She is even good at getting over thresholds between rooms, she does laps around the living room and dining room. She also loves to grab a toy from Zev and run/walk away with it and he can't catch her by crawling. She still walks with her arms out for balance, still says "flower", "baby", in her own baby talk way. Both kids are pointing at everything in their environment. And just yesterday Zev said "DA-DA!", mommy looks up and daddy was in the window on the porch. Wow..

Zev was in the hospital for a few days

Last wednesday we attended a new baby's brit milah. During which Zev was acting very strange. Note the last entry was after their checkup and shots. So he was really whiny and whimpering and fussy, so much so it really became a burden to stay very long. On the walk home, since it was just down the street from us, Zev fell asleep so we thought it was just that. When we got home we got him ready for bed and we noticed he was breathing very hard. At first we thought it was nothing so we debated whether or not we should call the doctor. But erring on the side of caution, we called. When the nurse called back we described Zev's breathing and how hard it was and rapid. She asked us to count the breaths while she timed it, the nurse advised us to put him in a the bathroom with the shower so he can breathe in the steam. During this time, we noticed just how hard he was laboring to breathe. We called back and reported that there was no change so we were told to bring him to Children's Hospital. We drove as fast as we could through the streets with Zev crying the whole way. When we pulled up, Orli got car sick and threw up all over her self. It sucked. The parking attendant that was doing the valet asked us if we needed a doctor or a nurse to come out because she looked so sick. We were like "no, its the other baby, she's just car sick"
In the ER Zev's oxygen was not very good, so he was given meds through a nebulizer and put on oxygen. They worked a tiny bit, but they decided to admit him. By then it was 3am. He had some xrays and they took a mucus sample from his nose. Everything came back negative for RSV, Pneumonia, and the Flu.
Over Thursday he was still being treated with meds and a steriod. He wasn't interested in eating or drinking. He was really weak and lethargic so much that when the nurses came by to listen to his chest he didn't really stir or respond. That evening they decided to put an IV in. The first IV didn't take, he perked up from that procedure for sure but unfortunately they had to try two more times. That was tough.
He got better over that night, his breathing rate slowed down significantly and his oxygen was more stable so they took him off the oxygen. Zev started eating and feeling better so by Friday night they let us go home. During the last day Orli came by and stayed in the lobby. We really missed her so we took turns visiting with her. Orli gave Zev a balloon and when she saw Zev she hugged him. They have not been apart since they were born.
Mommy and Daddy are really tired, Zev came home with a nebulizer machine. We are just happy that he is ok now and we really hope it never happens again.
Diagnosis: Some kind of reactive airway disease, not exactly asthma, it is unknown why it happened, he did have a little chest cold. It is suspicious that it happened just about a few hours after the shots. Who really knows, nothing happened to Orli, we'll keep our eye out.