Sunday evening, I gave Landon a bath and fed him some dinner. He had chicken with corn. He was eating his chicken and I was helping him with the spoon to get some corn. He was doing well with it. I turned on an episode of "Blue's Clues" (cause that's Landon's favorite right now) and we were eating together. Well, I gave him another bite of corn and he got excited about something on tv at the same time. When he got excited he took a deep breath at the wrong time and he started to choke on the corn. Normally, if he starts to choke, just some pounding on the back helps him to get it out. This time, that didn't help. I immediately took him upstairs to use his suction machine to see if it was in his trach. That didn't help. I tried everything to get it out. Thankfully, Landon can't turn blue or anything from choking...he just coughs a lot. So I decided it would help to plug his trach when he coughed out and maybe that would help get it out. Well, after a few minutes of that he started to sound a little better. I called one of our nurses, Theresa, and asked what her "nurse opinion" was. She said she would come over and listen to him and if need be we could change his trach if it sounded like it was in there.
When she got here, Landon was doing fine. He was talking and acting like himself. Every once in a while though he would have a coughing fit, and then his trach would sound like it was plugged off. We tried changing his trach, but that didn't help. So we decided it would be best to take him to the ER to have him checked out.
When we got to Children's ER, it was (of course) one of their busy nights. We waited in the waiting room for about an hour. Luckily, after I told the receptionist what happened one of the nurses came to see if his oxygen was okay. They put a little band-aid looking thing around his toe that has a red light on it. It measures how much oxygen is in his blood and is measured up to 100 (100 being the best). He was running in the mid-90s (which is still really good). He is normally in the 90s, so they figured out that he wasn't in immediate danger, but told me that if he started showing any signs to let them know immediately. So, Landon continued to run around the waiting room being his normal self waving to everyone. We finally got a room and had the privilege of sitting in there for another 3 hours. Thankfully, they got us a tape of "Blue's Clues" to watch while we waited. Landon was still awake the whole time and it was about 130am when he finally fell asleep in Theresa's arms. He's such a partier!! :)
After taking some x-rays, they figured out that they were going to have to go in and see if they could physically see anything...which meant another broncoscopy. The on-call ENT doctor was the same guy that was there the night Landon's trach was out. He was really nice about explaining what he could do and why. He told me that he was going to go in and see if he could get it out. He could only go so far with his instruments, but he was getting a pulmonologist (lung doctor) on board. He said that if it was further than the bronchioles (where your lungs split to go into the two lungs) he could have the pulmonologist go in try a hand at it. They scheduled the procedure for 7am on Monday morning which meant that we had to spend the night in the hospital...yippy! So about 3 in the morning we got into a hospital room and I went to the house to pick up some things for me and Landon. When I got back, it was around 4am and I got a few hours (off and on) of sleep with Landon before we had to get up for Landon's procedure.
The procedure went well. They got a kernel of corn out of Landon's right lung....stupid corn. They even showed it to me in a specimen cup. We won't be eating corn for a while. :)
We got home yesterday evening after Landon suffered a temperature in the hospital. It was controlled with some Tylenol and now today he is doing great! He's still coughing and such just from the irritation, but with some time should go away. I'll probably be taking him back to school tomorrow.
What a crazy day!!!! Here are a couple of pictures of my little man in the hospital. He was such a trooper and enjoyed showing all the nurses his iPad. :)
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