February 27, 2010
Is this ever going to get any easier? What are we doing wrong?!
If you’ve read previous posts, you know that James has been in and out of the hospital several times for respiratory distress. We’ve been trying our best to care for him at home, but sometimes it feels like we’re not doing enough. We’ve been giving him breathing treatments at home. (Sometimes he even helps with his breathing treatments.) We were frequently suctioning his nose and mouth as much as needed and trying to manage his secretions the best that we could.
On Friday, February 26th, we took James to see the pediatrician again. We just couldn’t get his breathing under control and he had a little bit of a fever. Once again, the pediatrician had James admitted for respiratory distress.
They did a x-ray and ultrasound of his chest and he did not appear to have pneumonia. They did put him on an antibiotic, though, because of his fever.
An ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) came by to look at James and thought that overall he looked good. His only concern was to find a way to better manage James’ secretions. If we could find a way to manage the secretions better, maybe James wouldn’t have so many respiratory distress episodes.
James (and Stacy) only stayed in the hospital overnight and came home the following day.