Monday, March 23, 2009

Blakers is ''Sick''

So well he's not really 'sick' but he is just starting to have some of the loving after effects of his RSV bout. On Wednesday he developed a cough (which he's had on and off since RSV) It hadn't seemed to bad until Saturday night, when he had some medicine and it seemed to help. Yesterday though on our drive back home from KC it started to get progressivly worse and worse. By dinner time it was starting to hurt him and he was coughing atleast every 10 seconds. I gave him a cough supresent which didn't seem to do any good. So I later gave him some triaminic PM so he could sleep, but it didn't seem to help either, so I decided to give him a breathing treatment, and call this morning for a doctors appointment. The doctor listened to him and checked is Oxygen Saturation levels. He read at 91% (not great, you are supposed to be at 95 or above), so they gave him another breathing treatment at his appointment. After that his Oxygen levels were at 95 so that was good. But becuase of this we are supposed to give him a breathing treatment every 4 hours (unless he asleep without coughing, then I can let him sleep). We also are going to give him 4 days worth of steriods to hopefully get over this bout. Essentially she said it is asthmatic symptoms, which we were told he had a high chance of getting because of the RSV, and the fact that Nick has Asthma. Still if this is the worst of things then we will take that! We'll see how the steriods go, the Dr. warned us they taste really bad then the pharmasist said that we would probably just have to hold him down and put it down his throat. (Not excited about that).

3 comments:

  1. SO sad. I hope he gets better soon.

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  2. I am glad you caught it so early. The meds will kick in real fast that way!!

    Love, Mom K

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  3. Yuck! I hope he feels better soon, so you can start feeling better soon too! Worrying is as bad as being sick.

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