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This week’s theme is My Reason to Breathe is You. As usual, I’m going to take this literally 😉
Last year at this time, Logan had a cold (that was not quite pneumonia) and was having trouble breathing. HIS reason for breathing well was this:
Thank goodness we haven’t had to pull that thing out this year! (*knock wood*)
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Logan has been such a good kid through all of this (and this). Our typical MO right now is to strap him into his high chair and let him watch some TV while I pump the meds to him through the nebulizer.
I gave up on the first day trying to have the mask strapped to his head – so I spend the 5 or so minutes just holding it close. (although, he let me take some pictures of him holding over his nose…)
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Sometimes he tries to bite it, or put his finger in the holes, but mostly he knows if he just waits it out, it’ll go away soon enough.
And he’s MUCH better now!! No more holding his breath for a bit and then laboring to breathe in. *phew*
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So, now my question is: what the heck IS this?
Dragon? Snake? Fish?
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I know today is usually Fx4 day, but with all these doctor’s appointments, I just don’t have the time to round up a photo or two. Lame, I know.
Plus – Logan’s update is more important 🙂
I ended up giving him the nebulizer treatment 4 times last night (every 3 hours!). Three out of the four times he didn’t even stir. The 4th time (5:30am), he popped his eyes open and stared at the mask for a long time. Then he reached out and grabbed my little bitty flashlight and was fine for the rest of the treatment. He even went back to sleep – for about 15 minutes. *sigh* Then he was up for the day. This seems awfully early when his usual wake-up time is 7:30!
One more treatment before we left for the doctor’s office, and we were on the road at 9am. (The appointment was at 10:00.) He fell to sleep in the car about 15 minutes away from the office, so a short little cat nap to energize him and make all the moms and teenagers in the waiting room ooh and aww over him. (Oh, and there was a twin mom in there who I TOTALLY stalked…I think she’ll be signing up for the twins club soon. LOL)
The doctor came in and checked the oxygen level (numbers are up) and his lungs (still gunky but better). I still need to give him the treatments every three hours, but I don’t have to wake up to do it over night any more. She said if Logan wakes up coughing or if I happen to wake up during the night to do one, but other than that – just during the day. And then by Sunday we should start weaning and shift to every 4 hours or so.
Yippie!! Both that Logans getting better and not worse, and that I don’t have to set the alarm to go off every three hours tonight! 🙂
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Okay. It’s time I jumped on the Happy Thursday bandwagon. Goddess has a whole (very touching) story behind the HT idea, so head on over there and check it out. And join on in!
So…why am I happy this lovely Thursday? Because Logan does not have Pneumonia. And he’s only borderline for the bronchitis. And because I didn’t wait to bring him in to the doctor like I had contemplated doing…
This morning went like this:
Mommy hears Logan coughing (still) through the monitor and decides that she’s going to call the doctor to make an appointment. Symptoms: Cough sounds different since yesterday; nice rash on left side of Logan’s face; runny, runny not-so-clear runny nose; sounds like Logan’s holding his breath and then taking labored breaths.
The nurse says, “Come on in!”
I should state here that our pediatrician’s office is about 45 minutes to an hour away. We love her (she has twins and a 3rd child – the 3rd is older than the twins though), so we don’t see any real need to change. I figure if there’s an emergency, we’ll be heading to the hospital anyway (and have), so it doesn’t REALLY make a difference…and it means that I get some alone time with the sick kid.
Okay…back to this wonderful Thursday…The appointment is at 9:40, so we leave at 8:30 to be there in plenty of time. The doctor listens to Logan’s lungs (a lot), checks his oxygen levels (a wee bit low), and decides to give him a nebulizer treatment right there in the office. Huh. okay – never done this before, but I should be able to handle it. They bring the machine and a mask in and tell me it’s okay if Logan cries for the 5 minutes it runs…in fact, it’s almost better if he does. Mmm hmm. Ya…mommy doesn’t like putting THAT much stress on him – especially when he’s sick, so when he showed signs of not liking the cool mask after about 30 seconds, I grabbed a pen and paper out of my purse and we went at it.
5 minutes later the doctor comes back, listens to his lungs and checks his oxygen levels again (both are better) and promptly orders an X-ray. Oh goodie! We head upstairs to the labs and hang out for a while. Mommy of the year over here had dressed Logan in a one-piece outfit, so I had him in his diaper and his coat – cuz they told me not to bother dressing him yet. So we’re running around – making all the old ladies laugh (and some of the doctors and nurses – but not all).
Finally it’s his turn to go into the room and mommy gets to hold him so he doesn’t move. More fun! He was a trooper though, and we didn’t have to re-do any of the x-rays.
Back down to the doctors office so she can read the x-rays and check the lungs again. LOTS of gunk in his lungs, but no real spots of pneumonia. She called it bronchitis, but said that it wasn’t really – just borderline. She wants him on antibiotics and also prescribed a nebulizer…that I have to give to him every 3 hours. Even over night. No sleep for me tonight! Eesh.
We finally left the doctor’s office at 11:20.
BUT I have to bring him back in to see her tomorrow morning. Poor little guy 😦
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