Post by Tony B. on Sept 7, 2007 13:51:56 GMT -5
My friend Alan Waldens son is very ill and in the hospital.
Here is part of his email about what has happened.
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We have gone through one scary day and night with Christian.
He awoke yesterday morning at 3:30 AM complaining of not being able to breath. Tosha stay up with him a while and he got into bed with her for the rest of the night.
Then as he was getting ready to come to school he again said he was not feeling well. I listened to him and checked his breathing long enough to hear some congestion and decided it best for him to stay at home.
We both crawled back into my bed with him having some Dimeatap and Tyenol for his fever. As he was sleeping his breathing sped up and became rapid with him making little oh sounds afer each breath. At 10:30 he woke up and began throwing up, not food, but all congestion. Lots of it and I decided it was doctor time since he was now almost panting like a tired dog.
By the time the doctor examined him he was as pale as any child I had ever seen and the congestion kept coming. The doctor then told me he was not getting oxygen and one lung had shut down, completely full of congestion. They hooked him up on oxygen and began giving him breathing treatments.
As you know by now I am sure he has some chickens. We have experienced some dying which at first I thought was the heat. But then they kept dying so I took some to the poultry lab there in Forsyth and discovered they had an infection. Because of this I kept him out of the pens even though they did not tell me it was contagious. Not knowing this and the fact the chickens were looking healthy after my new treatments I let him go into the pens the day before yesterday.
After I told the doctor this he called the lab and everything went wild. They were contagious and it appeared Christian had caught their infection which had now turned into serious Pneumonia. We rushed him to the Children's Medical Center by ambulance with also the fire department coming to the doctor's office. By now I was scared to death. We did not suspect Chicken Flu but they were alarmed and about to condem our chickens or quarantine them.
After getting him to the hospital, they were able to stabilize him and after being treated for two different things as a precaution he is doing much better this morning even though he is still on oxygen and hooked up to IVs. We are still awaiting the lab work to find out if it was the chickens for sure. But... we may never know...
Here is part of his email about what has happened.
.......................
We have gone through one scary day and night with Christian.
He awoke yesterday morning at 3:30 AM complaining of not being able to breath. Tosha stay up with him a while and he got into bed with her for the rest of the night.
Then as he was getting ready to come to school he again said he was not feeling well. I listened to him and checked his breathing long enough to hear some congestion and decided it best for him to stay at home.
We both crawled back into my bed with him having some Dimeatap and Tyenol for his fever. As he was sleeping his breathing sped up and became rapid with him making little oh sounds afer each breath. At 10:30 he woke up and began throwing up, not food, but all congestion. Lots of it and I decided it was doctor time since he was now almost panting like a tired dog.
By the time the doctor examined him he was as pale as any child I had ever seen and the congestion kept coming. The doctor then told me he was not getting oxygen and one lung had shut down, completely full of congestion. They hooked him up on oxygen and began giving him breathing treatments.
As you know by now I am sure he has some chickens. We have experienced some dying which at first I thought was the heat. But then they kept dying so I took some to the poultry lab there in Forsyth and discovered they had an infection. Because of this I kept him out of the pens even though they did not tell me it was contagious. Not knowing this and the fact the chickens were looking healthy after my new treatments I let him go into the pens the day before yesterday.
After I told the doctor this he called the lab and everything went wild. They were contagious and it appeared Christian had caught their infection which had now turned into serious Pneumonia. We rushed him to the Children's Medical Center by ambulance with also the fire department coming to the doctor's office. By now I was scared to death. We did not suspect Chicken Flu but they were alarmed and about to condem our chickens or quarantine them.
After getting him to the hospital, they were able to stabilize him and after being treated for two different things as a precaution he is doing much better this morning even though he is still on oxygen and hooked up to IVs. We are still awaiting the lab work to find out if it was the chickens for sure. But... we may never know...
