Our Unbreakable Spirit: Sitting in Emerg

I have been at the Stratford Emerg since 330 today, its now 8:50pm. Not sure if we are being admitted for his pneumonia yet or not, so far we did 2 chest xrays and some blood work, first we tried in both arms, and got nothing, then we had to resort to pricking his toes 3 times to get enough blood work. he is not passed out on the bed beside me.

Oh and he also got a ventoline treatment earlier. So now we are waiting on the bloodwork results and to see what the xrays say..it will be a long night, that I am sure of. Kai is at Grandma and Grandpa's tonight since Derek works, Thanks mom and dad!! So we are here because his breathing has been pretty crappy, he is really working hard at it today..poor little guy...so we got him here to Stratford since I phoned London and they said they did not have any beds available at the moment. I guess the upside is that if we do have to be admitted they can do Reiko's sleep study here, they were going to send me the SAT's machine for me to do one night at home and then drop it back off here, but this would make it easier.

Reiko had his birthday party yesturday and it was a great day! He was alittle grumpy but was awesome for the most part, he didn't eat any cake though...threw it away...he was spoiled rotten with toys, that have kept him very entertained here in the hospital lol. I got to see some greats friends and family and we had lots of amazing food. Kai had a wonderful time playing with all 7 of his cousins! I hardly saw him at all the whole time lol. He then went to Oma's for the night! Derek and I were soo tired yesturday after the birthday party so I went to bed early, while Derek had to go to work. But Reiko was up every half hour to hour all night, his breathing was just really really bad. He slept most of the morning and Derek let me sleep once he got up, so I didn't get up until 1:40 when Reiko woke up from his second or third nap! Then we got our bags packed and headed for the hospital once we noticed how the puffers were not helping at all.

Ughh one of the worst parts of being in a hospital emerg, is you hear everyone else crying and upset, right now there is a toddler probably about Kai's age screaming and crying, and somehow Reiko sleeps through it all. Poor little guy, I hope he feels better soon(the little boy in emerg). Another bad part, if you weren't sick before, you can gaurantee you are going home sick...The doctors and nurses have been amazing as usual though. And hopefully we will know soon what we are doing. In the meantime, here are some pics from the birthday party!

The Birthday Boy!

The cake we had made, we were supposed to have another one made but she got terribly sick, so we got the local bakery to do it and I added the snowflakes,...I never said I was an artist!