LO has RSV, and he's been checked out by his primary care physician, another doctor at the practice, and an ER doctor. That's right, we had to take him to the ER yesterday because he was having chest retractions. But they have all said he's fine (albeit sick) and the symptoms he's having are mild and simply typical of RSV. Still, taking a 3-month-old baby to the ER on Mother's Day and having to hold a mask spewing Albuterol on his face while he wails and hold him down while they deep suction his sinuses and obsessively watch the O2 monitor for three hours... was nervewracking to say the least.

So when I got to work today and a coworker asked how he was and I told her he was a little under the weather and had caught RSV at daycare, I really didn't need to hear this response:

"Oh my God! When my youngest had RSV, he ended up in the hospital in an oxygen tent for 10 days! And was asthmatic until he was 8!"

Thanks.