We sent Arianna back to school the week after her cath and she came home sick with a runny nose and her asthma was really acting up. So I pulled the nebulizer out and was very proactive with it.
She had Friday off which I was happy about so we let her rest up. She was better by the next week. So we sent her back to school.
She only goes to school Mon, Tues and Fri..but when she came home Tuesday she was running a fever. After 4 days of a fever the coughing started so out came the neb. On Monday she was looking sick with no signs of kicking it soon so off to the pediatrician we went.
Chest x-ray showed perihilar opacities consistent with viral pneumonia or pulmonary edema. YEAH..you better believe I was getting nervous. I called cardiology and pulmonology and both felt that it was NOT pulmonary edema but pneumonia. THANK GOD! You see pulmonary edema would of meant she was in heart failure. Even though we are not happy about pneumonia it is our better alternative.
She started on azithromycin and doing Xopenex nebs every 4 hours as well as increasing her Flovent inhaler for several days. Withing 24 hours of her first does of antibiotics her fever stopped! She is still having trouble at night with the coughing but I'm going to do a midnight neb to help with that. Her sats are staying high which the pulmonologist says because we have been doing the preventative steroid inhaler! Good thing we did that this winter!! We are trying hard to get her better before her birthday party on Saturday. I can't believe my baby will be 5!!!!
So here we are the day before Thanksgiving and she is doing great! Still doing our nebs and will finish the antibiotics on Friday. Devin decided to get in on the action and spiked a fever o f 102 last night and still having ALOT of head congestion and runny nose. Daddy even decided to get in on the action and is sick but of course he went to work. Such a good Daddy! I'm flooding my system with medicine so this head cold doesn't get any worse. WE WILL BE HEALTHY!!!!
