No end in site....

Well you guessed it E is sick AGAIN!!! So this makes it his what, 4th pnuemonia this winter?? Ah I tell ya it's really getting old. So here's how it all came down.

He ended his antibiotics round Sunday almost 2 weeks ago. The doc scheduled a recheck for the pnuemonia he had for 2 weeks after his meds were outta his system which she said would stay in for 10 days after his last dose. So 2 days after starting his meds he sounded WAYYYY better and wasn't coughing or wheezing at all and seemed to be back to "good" health. That lasted up until 7 days after his meds were done, that Friday his coughing seemed to be coming back and by Sunday it was in full force with coughing attacks and all, but no puke THANK GOD!! So Sunday night was a long night for me and Tom. E was up most of the night coughin away and I almost scooped him up 3 or 4 times ready to bring him to the ER because I was just so sick of it and he was miserble and whining inbetween coughing attacks yet still trying to sleep. We eneded bringing him into our bed for the night since it seemed like he did better with someone near him or patting his butt or back after each attack. So there I was laying in bed with 3 other bodies in bed, including Scooby, and as soon as E would stop coughing Tom would fall asleep and start snoring and just as I would nod off E would start coughing AGAIN and cycle would start all over again!! It was ONE LONG NIGHT!!!

So Monday I called and made an appt even though his check up was the next day. They got him in pretty early in the morning. He still hasn't run a fever with any of his sickness's, or maybe just a low grade that I never took his temp for. The doc comes in and I said "we're baaack" and he's sick AGAIN!!! So she listens to him and he's tighter this round than last, in his lungs. No X-ray needed as she can tell he still has it. She thinks it never went away but I'm thinking it did since he was non-phlegmy, wheezing or coughy for almost a week. So new meds were given (heck I think he's been on all penicillin meds since this all began now) this time augmentin, the stuff that gave him flood-butt last year, and also prednisone along with his 2 inhalers meds. So now it's Friday..... He still sounds like crap, still wheezy still coughing, although not as much, and still just plain tired and laying down or wants to be cuddled more than usual. The doc gave us an option of him seeing a pulmonologist or allergist, we picked the pulm doc first but then reconsidered since the allergist was here in town vs traveling to the cities. So he goes in on the 20th for a work-up that will last 2 to 3 hours. When we were at his doc appt I brought up that maybe he has a low immune system and she said they would check that the allergist. Or maybe he got fungus from his sippy cups he had the beginning of winter, that's a whole nother story:-) Who knows but I guess we'll get some answers in a couple weeks at his allergist appt, I HOPE!!! And so does this little boy so he feels better!!!



Anywho in other news.....

Scooby's puppies should be here in less than 2 weeks!!! Crazy I can't believe he's gonna be a dad!!! Gavin is all done with hockey so it's on to baseball, and this year I'll be his baseball coach with my dad and my father-in-laws help so I'm excited about that. Heck I played fastpitch softball for almost 15 years baseball can't be that far off can it?? :-) Em is becoming a compulsive liar, and it's driving me NUTS!! I'm waiting for the sweet sweet Emma to come back to me but I just don't know if it's gonna happen:(

Well that's all for now, time to hide some eggs for the Easter Egg hunt this afternoon here, all the kids are raring to go:-)

Thanks for checking in!!

Happy Easter

Rachel