We had a more exciting week than usual! Isaac went skiing last weekend with Craig and came home with a little cough. By Sunday, he had progressed to coughing and wheezing so we skipped church and went to KidsCare. They gave him a breathing treatment and sent him home on steroids. I thought that would be the end of it, but when our Super Bowl party ended, he looked grey and was really wheezing so we took a trip up to Primary Children's Hospital. After a "super-neb", which is a bionic 45-minute breathing treatment, he was worse again, so after "negotiating" (probably a better word is fighting) with the attending physician in the ER, they finally admitted Isaac at 4:00 a.m. and watched him through the night. They had to give him two more breathing treatments and turn his oxygen on for awhile, but by morning he seemed to have turned a corner and we went home in the middle of the day.
I took Isaac to Dr. Briesacher's Tuesday for a breathing check. . . still wheezing. . . So now he is taking antibiotics for pneumonia. Whew! It's been a long, taxing week. Isaac went to school Thursday, but it wore him out so much he couldn't return on Friday. Hopefully the weekend will be long enough for him to rest and be better for Monday. We are going to St. George for President's Day and I know that will really help him to breath cleaner, warmer air.
The health adventures of raising Icky. . . (stay tuned for more episodes).
5 comments:
poor isaac! we finally bought our very own machine to give max his breathing treatments. it's been a lifesaver for us!
max loved his present!!! i sent a thank you card to your mom's house, did she not get it?
She must have gotten it after she asked me. Glad he loved it!
Wow! What a huge worry. I hope he is doing much better and that you can get some rest.
holy crow that is quite an adventure. I'm so glad you "negotiated" a longer stay. I may need your negotiation skills one day, I'm totally one of those people who doesn't know when to tell doctors that they are retarded. Stuff like that scares the begeebees out of me. I hope he is better sooooon.
Surely one of these pictures made it into your 365 book. It should!
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