One Sick Little Mama!

For the past two weeks or so Kaitlyn has been sick sick sick!! She got the flu back on Nov 5th and that lasted about 5 days of horribleness and it never got better! She ended up in urgent care only to find out the Flu caused Ear infections and Bronchitis (well what was thought to be anyway) and she was dehydrated. She was put on a Z-Pack to try to get rid of the Upper Respiratory stuff. I tried my best to get her to drink and hydrate for another day and we ended up spending the night in the ER with IV fluids because of the dehydration. That is when we found out she had a UTI and she was then put on Bactrim. Well we finished up those meds and Kaitlyn was still coughing and tired all the time and complaining of pain and so I took her back in to the Pediatrician where we found that the Bronchitis was actually pretty bad wheezing and asthma and she was then (in the office) started on a Nebulizer with Albuterol and Pulmicort. She was also given oral Steriods (Predisone) for 5 daysto help the inflamation in her lungs. We have been doing the Nebulizer treatments twice a day for a week. During all this fun stuff Kaitlyn started complaining about her back hurting and it hurting to pee again so we found that the Bactrim they gave us was not the right med and she needed yet another script for Duricef.

Today we had a check up again for her and we need to finish out the UTI meds before we know she is clear and we started an Asthma Action Plan! We're going to continue the Nebulizer twice a day with only the Pulmicort, unless she gets a cold and clogged up and we need to use the Albuterol. This will go for 3 more weeks and if there are no colds in the 3 weeks we can stop the Nebulizer until she might need it again. If she does happen to get sick in the next month we might end up using the Nebulizer all winter. We did get lucky and the Dr's office had a mask so I dont have to hold it for her anymore! :) Hopefully she gets used to it... it's new so she's having a hard time but we will get there.

I think that about catches us up! We're heading down to Long Island to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday and for the weekend so we'll have to update again after that!