Will went to bed on the Friday night feeling fine. He had eaten fine, went to bed fine, seemed FINE. He woke up about 5:00 am, with a fever and was crying pretty hard. He settled right back down, so I didn't give him any Tylenol or anything like that. He slept till about 8:30, and woke up with a fever of about 105, and a lump growing out the side of his neck the size of half a tennis ball. I took him to the Guelph Emergency Department, and they rushed him by ambulance to McMaster Hospital in Hamilton. They determined that there was a cyst growing from his tonsils into his throat, and took out his tonsils and adenoids the next day. When we got let into the recovery room after his surgery, he was having a hard time breathing and needed a lot of suctioning and oxygen. We spent way longer in the recovery room then what was normal, but the awesome nurse finally got him to keep his oxygen saturations at 91% with about 2L of oxygen.
That night he kept dropping his oxygen sats into the 80's and 70's, but with some help from the Respiratory Team and lots of suctioning he was ok. The next morning about 11:00 he started to drop his sats again, only this time it didn't matter what they did he wouldn't respond. He was satting in the 40's, and eventually wouldn't take breaths on his own. The called it a "coma brought on from the moriphine", in which he was so out of it he couldn't even breathe on his own. About 3:00 one of his doctors from the ENT (ear, nose and throat team) gave him some medication to immediatley reverse the effects of the moriphine and within 3 minutes he was awake and screaming. What a sound to his mommy's ears!! We stayed for a couple of days after that to make sure everything was good, and then came home. A visit to his pediatrician showed that he lost just over 5 pounds in 6 days. Thankfully he's back to eating like his old self, and we're optimistic that he'll gain it back in no time.
My baby will be 2 tomorrow.....and I can't believe we almost lost him.
