Another Bad Spell

Monday March 26th
For the past few weeks Erica seemed to be having these "Spells" were she would have these pain cries, and be unconsolable, and with these spells her breathing would get rapid and her heart rate would jump up, and she would need her oxygen increase as her stats would drop. We couldn't do anything but try to comfort her and she would basically pass out because she would play herself right out! A completely helpless feeling on my behalf. You feel useless that you can't comfort her, or take what ever was causing her discomfort away, and knowing that she had health issues, I couldn't help but think the worse. With everything that's been going on all her "symptoms" were the same as before she had her surgery, and I could help that with each passing day that it seems to be getting worse and worse that what was going on wasn't good! Every time she was admitted or see the Dr.'s in the ER it was always, she's fine she's just got a virus that will have to run through, there was no dr.'s that said ok to put your mind at ease we'll do an echo or x-ray. I was starting to think she may be colicky or be lactose intolerant. Or something else much worse was going on. I couldn't help but think that these "spells" were mini heart attacks of some sort, that it wasn't "just a virus"
Well last night Erica was having a hard time keeping her stats up and her heart rate down. She's been in-drawing more and more with each passing day. Throughout the night I would continue on turning up her oxygen as she would loss saturation and her heart rate was starting to increase into the 150-160 beats per min. While sleeping.
First thing in the morning Erica was going worse and then she had another "spell" She started to cry painfully and her heart rate increase to the 200's and her oxygen saturation went into the 60's. We cranked her up to 3 L. As I was trying to calm Erica down a bit Dave was getting her car seat and stuff ready as she needed to go to the hospital however we didn't know how we were going to take her as our portable o2 tanks wouldn't go as high as 3 L it would only go to 2 L. I was finally able to settle Erica a bit to get her o2 down to 2 L and we took off. I had called Dr. Essalah's office and informed him of what was going on and he was meeting us in Emerge. Once we got there Erica had calmed down quite a bit, she was doing so well we thought we would be sent back home. Dr. Essalah took a look at her and she got more blood work and swabs for infection and such, and he wanted an X-ray done as he notice a decrease in her left lung. Once we got the X-ray back it had shown that Erica had Pnumonia, so she was admitted to the Pediatric Ward  (4F) and was started on I.V medication for the phenomena and her lasix was increased.