I feel like a unloyal friend to you guys because I haven't been checking in and posting. Now that I need some support to end this worry I'm turning to you. School and clinical practicum are really keeping me busy.
Josh has had a coug since the weekend, horce sounding voice a good bit of last week. I took him to the pediatrician on Tuesday as his peakflows were down from his best of 350 to a we are going down hill 250. She was just going to up his Xopenex treatments and call it a day but decided to check in with the CF clinic (smart move). His regular pediatrician is on vacation. His CF doctor is also on vacation, but she did speak to the doc or saw him last. Turns out on a Valentine's day visit he cultured something (beats me?) so he had her start Josh on bactim. Not much improvement but it was only one day on antibiotics; but by yesterday afternoon he started a low grade temp. Last night it was 100.5 when he went to bed. Later he crawled into my bed with a headache. His AM tep is 100.4 and his peaks flows are at 250. Just frustrated and a little worried. Put calls in to the CF clinic and to the pediatrician (whose receptionist said lets wait on the CF doc for a bit).
The disappointment is that on Monday he is scheduled to leave with his class for a 4 night, 5 day stay at a science and leadership building camp that is geared towards six graders. The nursing staff there will even run his nebs and give all meds (they have dealt with cf kids before). I'm prematurely thinking he won't be able to go because the CF clinic (and rightfully so) always has him stay away from school and crowds when he is sick. He was soooooo looking forward to this trip. And so was I.
Josh has had a coug since the weekend, horce sounding voice a good bit of last week. I took him to the pediatrician on Tuesday as his peakflows were down from his best of 350 to a we are going down hill 250. She was just going to up his Xopenex treatments and call it a day but decided to check in with the CF clinic (smart move). His regular pediatrician is on vacation. His CF doctor is also on vacation, but she did speak to the doc or saw him last. Turns out on a Valentine's day visit he cultured something (beats me?) so he had her start Josh on bactim. Not much improvement but it was only one day on antibiotics; but by yesterday afternoon he started a low grade temp. Last night it was 100.5 when he went to bed. Later he crawled into my bed with a headache. His AM tep is 100.4 and his peaks flows are at 250. Just frustrated and a little worried. Put calls in to the CF clinic and to the pediatrician (whose receptionist said lets wait on the CF doc for a bit).
The disappointment is that on Monday he is scheduled to leave with his class for a 4 night, 5 day stay at a science and leadership building camp that is geared towards six graders. The nursing staff there will even run his nebs and give all meds (they have dealt with cf kids before). I'm prematurely thinking he won't be able to go because the CF clinic (and rightfully so) always has him stay away from school and crowds when he is sick. He was soooooo looking forward to this trip. And so was I.