"Germ Pit"

6:00PM: Grandma and grandpa had left, and the girls were asleep.

9:00 PM: Just when we were about to bring the girls to bed, Emma woke
up from a nap screaming her little head off. She was coughing,
wheezing and couldn't breathe. Freaking out a little, I called my mom
to see if she had been like that during the day. I guess she seemed a
little fussy right before her last bottle but that was it. So Derek
and I called a nurse to see what we should be doing. The nurse
listened to her over the phone and said that we should bring her to
the hospital. As we were packing up to go, I noticed that Emma's hands
and lips were turning blue.

9:30 PM: Auntie Karen jumped in the car with us and we headed to the
hospital. We were taken in right away and they checked her oxygen
levels, listened to her lungs, etc. Then we were placed in a room and
Emma on a big girl hospital bed.

Poor Emmy.

Big girl bed.

Relaxing with her daddy.

"Hey Amelia, wanna play a trick on Mom and Dad?

How about you give me your outfit to wear and you get hooked up to the machines?"

12:00 AM: If you thought going to a tattoo parlor was bad ass, wait
till you hear this... while we were waiting to get an x-ray of her
lungs a group of doctors, nurses and a police officer walked by. One
of the nurses was crying. Obviously Karen and I thought someone had
died. But then the group went over to a locker and the nurse who had
been crying was asked to empty her locker. Yeah we totally witnessed a
drug bust! Apparently one of the nurses who worked on the maternity
floor was taking pills and liquid pain meds from the patients. She was
giving the women water instead of pain medication! Emma saw the whole
thing!

2:30 AM: Luckily there wasn't anything in her lungs, but the doctors
wanted to keep a close eye on her so they admitted her into the
hospital in the respiratory care wing. Derek had been sick that week
and was not allowed on the floor. Thank god we had Karen with us
because Amelia wasn't allowed on the floor either. They take
respiratory problems very seriously and don't want any germs passed
to/from kids. Derek went home with Amelia and Karen helped me with
Emma at the hospital. We were asked to wear gowns, face masks and
latex gloves at all times while in the room. So for those 2 hours we
slept that night, it was wearing a gown, face mask and latex gloves.
It was horrible.

Amelia is happy she gets to go home!

In my gear at 3:30 in the morning cutting a nipple with a scalpel.

Although, Karen and I sleeping in the hospital room chairs wearing all

of the gear was pretty bad... seeing Miss Emma sleeping in this bed
that looked like a cage was the worst. She was discharged
early the next morning. She ended up having an upper respiratory
virus, she is doing so much better now!!