Wednesday, October 30, 2013

and pneumonia continues

I'm snuggling with my baby girl this morning. My super snugly little one is still asleep at almost 10am. She did get up for a little bit and  get dressed and did meds. I then put her in her Super Seat to do her Pulmacort around 8am. I started the neb and she was sitting up and holding it and a few minutes into the neb her head fell to the side and she was sound asleep while doing the neb. I ending up holding her head up until she finished and then I picked her up and held her.
I woke up this morning to her breathing heavy (Brent has a cold or something that started last night so it was like waking up between two snoring bears). I got everything together for her neb and then picked her up and started the neb. She slightly opened one eye and then went back to sleep. She normally is up at 6am and this was just before 7. She also normally gives herself a neb and this morning I had to hold it for her.
Today her cough is worse then what it was. In the cough department I feel like we are moving backwards. I am hoping that it just means that she is getting the junk out of her lungs... I can be hopeful right?!?!
I called the pediatrician's office around 8:30 and talked to the nurse. When we picked up her Palmacort yesterday they told us a dose that was different then what the dr had told us so I just wanted to double check. I also expressed my concern that Jillian is still struggling a lot at times. She agreed that we should not be needing to do nebs so much at this point and we should not hear her breathing as loudly. She said the doctor gets in a little after 9 and she would talk to her then.
The nurse called back around 9:30. She said that I was correct in following the directions from the doctor and not the pharmacy. For a child under 12mo it is only 1/2 a vile of Palmacort. She asked if we had a pulse ox meter at home. I told her no. She then said that they wanted to add an oral steroid to try to help her kick this. She said they were going to call the pharmacy to get the script filled. We will head out in a couple of hours to get it.
It is 10:20 now and she is up and sitting with some toys. When all the meds are fully kicked in she will be smiley and play. She is still hanging out in one spot and not going really far. I can hear her breathing from about 5ft away, but at least she is happy.
We are going to keep her home from school for the rest of the week and we are hoping that by next week she is good to go back.
Yesterday she had 4 small poops. Today so far she has had one really small poop and I think I heard her working on more.... It has not been loose since that one poop on Monday afternoon. I'm glad she is not dealing with massive diarrhea on top of it. Her poop is going between a light yellow and a dark auburn color. It is normally a light yellow.
We will see how it goes with the new med. Hopefully it is the key to helping her kick this. I'll update more later. 

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