Matthew came home last night around 11pm. He woke up this morning just after 1am. He was extremely agitated and having trouble breathing. His mouth was dry, he had another fever, his oxygen saturation level was way down to 79%, and his heart rate was over 200bpm. We called the hospital and they told us in no uncertain terms to come back to the Emergency Room.
We were admitted with haste and brought back up to the PICU. Like a sickening case of Déjà vu, Matthew was hooked back up to all those beeping monitors we had bid farewell to just four weeks ago. Thankfully, Dr. Butler and Andrea cared for him until shift change followed by Dr. Daugherty and Becky. I couldn’t ask for a better or more familiar team to watch over him.