A hospital visit

We recently spent all day Monday and the majority of Tuesday in the hospital with Caleb. He stopped breathing for about 10 seconds Sunday night and again for 20-30 seconds early Monday morning. Sunday night we just thought he may have aspirated on some spit-up but after the morning, we were worried that there might have been something seriously wrong. So off to the hospital we went via ambulance.
Of course, once we got there Caleb was acting totally normal so the ER doctor, who was annoyed at being woken up (we're assuming), told us he was fine. We finally convinced him to talk to the pediatrician on staff who agreed that he should be tested to see if anything was going on since it was more than a one time thing. She decided to give him a 24 hr apnea test. This test was set up by an outside company, so after waiting 7 hours for the guy to show up, Caleb was hooked up to monitors and had a tube down his throat to check his reflux. We were not allowed to pick him up except to feed him, he had to be placed on his back and if he fussed/cried all we could do was give him a pacifier. It was horrible! After 5 hours of the test, I noticed that the machine said the memory was full; thus leading me to believe it was not recording the data anymore. I had the nurses call the company multiple times and was reassured that it was fine and recorded over itself (sounded silly to me if it was suppose to be a 24 hr test). The next morning, the guy came in early to tell us that there was 'equipment malfunction' and that the memory should not have been full and the test did not record!!!! He wanted to do the test over again...needless to say, we were upset!
So we called our pediatrician and told her what was going on. She agreed that he shouldn't have to repeat the test (he didn't set off any of the apnea alarms so his breathing had been fine for the 24 hrs) and asked that we stay to have an upper GI done to check his reflux. After waiting 4 hours to do the test (he had to be hungry so he would drink the barium), we were told that he has severe reflux. He doesn't spit up that often, but we are thinking that he tries to keep it down which is what was causing him to choke and stop breathing. So, they sent us home with some medicine and now Caleb is doing much better. I just wish that they would have done the GI test first because then we would have been home Monday night!