We took Cadence to the Dr. on March 4th because she was sick and just getting worse and worse. I assumed they would send us home for something viral and tell us to let it run it's course. Well, instead we headed to the hospital to get admitted. She was dehydrated and her oxygen was low. 
They had to put an IV in her hand. The first arm, they colapsed the vein so they had to do the other arm. She did farely well with the first arm, but wasn't tolerating it after that. It was so hard to watch
Then they came in and tried to draw blood from her arm. After 3 needle pokes, the nurse said, "I can't do this anymore, I feel too bad, we will take it from her heal"
They had the oxygen reader on her foot
This was the machine telling us her oxygen and pulse
It was so hard seeing her
Once they got the fluids in her, she started doing much better by the morning.
She stared smiling for the first time the day we went in, it was nice to see her still smiling.
(sorry, I don't know how to rotate it)
We had to take the oxygen off every one in a while to see how she was breathing without it.
She was such a champ. We ended up going home with a portable oxygen tank. She had to be on it for a week and a half before it finally was able to stay in the 90's consistantly.
This is her oxygen tank
It's as big as her!
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