Here is the part I left out of the previous post regarding the Respiratory Chronicles of Cooper.
Cooper's most recent case of pneumonia was back in December. It was just a bad cold and probably a little bit of the fact his lungs had taken a serious beating over the summer and weren't completely healed.
This case consisted of an 8-hour ER stay with 3 double nebs and 2 IV antibiotics and only 2 days of missed school. This was actually an improvement from our recent ER turned days and week long visits to the PICU. I can remember sitting in the office with Coop's pulmonary specialist realizing why everyone was so freaked out from his recurrent pneumonia that would. not. go. away. because this case seemed to be resolved in a day or so.
So out went the pneumonia and all that was left was a horrific case of sinusitis. It sounded like Coop had laryngomalacia worse than ever which was actually a collection of his backed up sinuses. Its really gross so I will spare you the details.
That was back in January. We are now in April and this sinusitis wont. stay. away. The antibiotics work and then 5-10 days later all the symptoms are back. Let it go an additional week and Coop's belly gets so full of junk he won't eat. So here we are starting on round 3 of antibiotics, this time 21 days of Omnicef. If this doesn't work, well its back to the ENT and possible adenoid surgery.
Phew!
It just wouldn't be our crazy rice life if we didn't have one thing after the next! :)
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