Day 797 - It's Not Allergies! 🤧🤒 Going to the ER! 🚑🏥
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 This is a very long post, sorry! ⚠️ 🌅 Around 6am, James showed signs of distress. His respiratory rate and heart rate was high. Mom took his temp and it was 100.7. This wasn't just allergies! Mom put James on the ventilator after sleeping with his HME. We figured since he was still trached but it made sense to use the ventilator to support him if he was having labored breathing. She went upstairs to let Dad know that she was taking James to the ER. He decided to come along too. We did an emergency trach change before leaving just in case there was a plug. The rule of thumb is, "When in doubt, change it out". In James' whole life we have never seen a plug. Every time we have done a trach change, his trach looks very clean. This was the same as all the others. It was our first time going to the ER in the morning. Typically we are leaving the house around 9pm or 10pm at night and having to deal with night shift. We headed to St Joe's because...