At the end of the day....

....we're still at the hospital! We did finally see the doctor late this afternoon, and she elected to keep Rebekah one more night. If we were positive that the only thing going on was Rebekah's ear infection, we would have been home this afternoon. However, with the virus that the boys had last week, we are concerned that Rebekah has both an ear infection AND the virus her brothers had. So, the doctor wanted to "test" Rebekah tonight to see if her fever came back, and if it did, how Rebekah responded to it. The doctor set a threshold of 101* as a point to repeat Rebekah's chest x-ray and see if it was changed.

So...Rebekah was doing well until about 6:30 tonight. Coincidentally, that is almost the exact time she started getting worse at home last night. Rebekah's temp went up to 101.8* and a chest x-ray was done. We probably won't have the results of the x-ray till morning unless something drastic has changed from last night's. So far Rebekah's sats remain fairly stable and we haven't had to increase her oxygen tonight. Rebekah has since had Motrin and has gotten a second wind. I'm hoping she falls asleep soon because this mama is tired! By the time we got up to our room last night and finished talking to nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists, it was almost 3am! I am ready to call it a (long!) day and go to bed myself!!

Thank you all for your prayers for Rebekah!

Nancy

**Update: It's now after 10:00, and Rebekah is still going strong.........