Doctors Office

The day Avery was one  month old was the first day he went to a doctor because he was sick. As unhappy as I was that he needed to go to the Doc I was glad he could see his Doc who “knows” him, especially because I wouldn’t be the one taking him because I was out of town at a ski race for the day. We took him in because he had puffiness around his eye and some gunk, as a result he was treated for possible pink eye. After 7 days of daycare I was called to come pick him up because he had undiagnosed drainage from his eye (aka symptoms of pink eye) we couldn’t get in in see his Doc so if was off to urgent care to again be diagnosed with pink eye (not a surprise since 8 of 12 kids in his room at daycare were out with the same thing) as a bonus I also developed pink eye and so did my mother, contagious stuff. 

All smiles from the day he got sent home from daycare

  The day before Avery turned three months he again got to visit his doctor due to illness, he had been coughing and congested and sounded a little wheezy for a few days and I felt it was time to see if it was more then just a common cold, and it was, he was entering into the early stages of what sounded like bronchus and had what appeared to be some nasal congestion caused by a virus, so we treated with an antibiotic.
After we finished 10 days of antibiotic, most of his symptoms had cleared , his breathing was better but he still had some nasal congestion so we waited a few days and back in we went. His Doc said his lungs were clear, the cracking she had heard was gone ( a good thing) and she hoped the congestion in his nose was also on its way out but gave me another prescription just incase later in the week his symptoms changed.
    Ended up picking up and using his just in case prescription because he got a fever and the wheezy sounds came back. While using the antibiotic he got better but after day 6 and we were done using it, the wheezing came back.  I made an appointment for him to be seen on Monday because I was not happy with the sound of his breathing, again his Doc was not available, but not feeling we could wait until his doc is back we went in to see a different doc. Not wanting to give him yet another drug (me or the doc) (because the previously prescribed antibiotic would still be in his system) we decided to wait and see.
    Well we waited, and we went back to see the same Doc yesterday, worse then Monday. This time wheezy-ness was a cause for action, his breathing was labored, so a chest x-ray was done to see if there was something going on, to get a good chest x-ray of a baby they have to get him to cry, so when they brought him back to me he had big tears on his face, breaks my heart every time I see that. Turns out that his lungs have some swelling which is causing the difficulty in his breathing, two Docs saw him today and both agreed that it was most likely caused by a virus (the one that had plagued him weeks before, but could also be cause by  allergies (but those really aren’t able to be diagnosed for until he is 2 or so) So he was treated in the clinic with a nebulizer and prescribed some meds to help reduce the swelling and hopefully put an end to all of this. We go back in Monday to be rechecked. So hopefully this will be the end of all this breathing issues, fingers crossed

Hard to believe that this
 happy baby has been sick for so long