Well, sickness is back at the Keeney House.
Drew has had a series of one illness after another this year. The latest one: bronchitis. The bronchitis we believe occurred after he had the flu, that settled into his lungs for a little visit. The doctor was great & put him on an antibiotic & steroids to fight it off. We saw great improvement for about a week.....until this weekend. The cough which never completely left, came back with a vengence. It was, of course, worse at night. For two nights of virtually no sleep (ie. coughing all night), I (kk) took him back to the doctor.
So, one day of work missed, 3 hours in a doctor's office....& the equilavent to a mortgage payment later...we are the proud new owner's of a nebulizer for Drew. We have another round of antibiotics, some Rx cough medicine (PTL), and a few boxes of nebulizer meds. We hope this will knock out the remainder of this respiratory infection. We hate to see the little guy sick & not getting any rest (of course, that means we haven't rested either).
The doctor believes that little Drew potentially has asthma. He is just not fighting back the way a typical child of his age should. However, with him having had RSV last January, it is possible his lungs have just not fully recovered. He believes Drew has a significant chance of having asthma, but doesn't want to diagnose him with it so young.
Having lived my entire life with asthma, this is something that I can wrap my brain around & feel much better about having a nebulizer at my disposal. It's definitely not something you want for your child, but appreciate the honesty of my family physician.
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