My poor Ashton

Ashton has been really sick :( He has been wheezing, having trouble breathing, coughing, & running a high fever. I took him to the pedi the Thurs before Christmas and she just said he had a little cold. Well, by Saturday he was pretty bad...everything was much worse. On Sunday I decided I better take him to Acute Kids (an urgent care clinic for kids) this was the 1st time I had to do this and they were wonderful!! They gave him 3 breathing treatments and a steroid. He seemed to feel much better. They sent him home with a nebulizer for breathing treatments every 3-4 hrs and steroids to be given 2 times a day. By Sun night he was not doing so good again. I decided I did not want to take a chance for something bad to happen and took him to the ER. When we got there he was really sounding bad..wheezing, barking cough and his chest was retracting. We get in there and they say his nose needs to be suctioned. I am thinking grrreat! I brought him to the ER to be suctioned, I could have done this at home. Well, after they suctioned with the bulb syringe they were like there is too much mucus in here. We need to use the vacuum. They use the vacuum and get out so much mucus. I was then very thankful I took him. There is no way I could have gotten all that out on my own. I have now become an expert with the bulb syringe. One good thing out of this! On Monday, we go to his Dr and follow up. Again, he is having rapid breathing, his oxygen levels are a little low, and he is wheezing. They do a breathing treatment in the office and after he seems a little better. We are scheduled to come back on Tuesday. Tuesday comes and he seems a little better. Still wheezing, but definitely better. We went to the pedi and his oxygen is really good today! Also, they said he seems to not be wheezing as much!! Thank goodness!! This has literally been hell! I hate when my babies are sick. Anyways, I am supposed to continue his breathing treatments for atleast the next two weeks with steroids twice a day, but cut back on the breathing treatments day by day as long as he seems to be doing better. It's Wed now and he is doing really good! He slept great last night. He did wake up at 3:30AM and was wheezing. We did a breathing treatment, which did not really seem to help too much. By 7:30AM he was wheezing pretty badly again. I do another breathing treatment, but this time with the steroids. After that he did great for most of the day. He still needed his treatments about every 4-5 hrs. He will continue on them on an as needed basis, but will continue the steroids two times a day. I am so thankful he seems to be feeling better and he is such a trooper. You can tell he does not like the treatments, but as soon as he takes in some breaths you can so tell he is feeling a little better. He goes with it. He will look up at me a few times and then he'll close his eyes and just breath it all in.
So, things are starting to look good here!!!

***UPDATE -- Wed., Jan. 5***
Ashton is doing so much better!! He is barely wheezing at all. Still has a little cough on occasion. We are still doing the breathing treatments two times a day, but only the steroid (per the Drs request)