ALSA, ALTE, PICU GERD, BPD

A.L.S.A=Advanced Life Support Ambulance - what had to pick us up Sunday
A.L.T.E= Acute Life Threatening Episode - which is what our primary diagnosis was.
P.I.C.U= Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - Where we were admitted this weekend.
G.E.R.D= Basically reflux
B.P.D= Broncho Pulmanry Dispaysia - Lung disease that we were diagnosed with.

OK enough with the definitions basically this is what happened......
Sunday sitting home giving Bryce his neb (from previous admission) all of a sudden he goes into a complete back bend in my lap, starts foaming from his mouth, white chunky stuff pours out of his nose, he stops breathing! Call 911, they get here he is finally breathing but not crying and very, very pale.. they decide he need ALSA, so they call in ALS EMt's from Oxford and they bring the biggest most high tech ambulance I think I have ever seen! Next thing I know we are flying down Rte 20, I am being asked so many questions while the EMT's are working on Bryce.... Scariest thing I have been through... we get to UMass brought right into a room, where the begin working on him, checking Sats (which were pretty much in the crapper) trying to take blood, start an IV, Insert a catheter, Chest Xray the whole 9 yards... while in the process of all this my poor little guy turns the darkest blue I have ever seen in my life... not just his face but his ENTIRE body! Can we say PANIC! Even the ER people looked nervous..... So needless to say we are getting admitted again, but this time they want him in ICU, not just the regular floor. We go to ICU and get comfy by this point Bryce was better but now we need to figure out what the hell just happened....By this time it about 11pm, so they just let us try to get some rest and deal with everything tomorrow. Monday we see about a million docs... GI, Pulmonology, Pedi, everyone... They come to the conclusion that Bryce has sever reflux and that must be what caused all of this. We get discharged from ICU and put on a regular floor to be watched, they changed Bryce to NEOkate formula, start his back on nebs every 4 hours, prednisone, Prevacid, Reglan and IV fluids. During the night about 1 am Bryces heart rate is ringing off like crazy he was Tachy at 237... NOT GOOD. The nurses come in Bryce now has a temp of 101.2 where did this come from??? Who knows... SO they take more blood, another chest Xray and belly Xray everything looks OK, of course with the exception of his scarred lungs which he has had all along anyway. They also did an Echo... The echo shows that Bryce has allot of pressure in the right side of his heart and also he has 2-3 ASD, (defects in his heart) mostly all caused from his BPD. So long story short we finally get discharged yesterday, pulmonology sends us home on an inhaler 2 times a day, nebs and prednisone. GI sends us home on Reglan and prevacid and with strict instructions to watch him carefully..... So after 4 days of NO sleep we are home and he seems to be back to himself. He hates his meds so that is a huge battle ad he really hates his inhaler but we'll get through this. So please pray for him that he stays healthy especially now that it is getting to be RSV season. We definitely won't be going anywhere except doc appts. and visitors here will be limited.. I am going to get to know the inside of my house very well! But thats OK as long as he is healthy. On the bright side he is finally smiling at us when we talk to him so that makes me feel really good!