Friday, August 7, 2009

Alex

Today I took Alex to the Dr. because of a runny nose that he has had for two weeks and a cough that developed in the last couple of days. Due to Alex's history of ear infections they got us in at 10am. Thankfully, his ears were clear but the PA heard wheezing. She wanted Alex to do an oxygen check and an Albuterol breathing treatment in the office. Alex did great and the treatment helped the wheezing. But he had to do a second treatment in the office because his oxygen levels were not high enough. So, Alex did it a second time and did great. Two hours later we headed to pick up his prescription and the nebulizer was delivered to our home earlier this evening. Here are pictures of Alex doing his first treatment at home. We got a cute little penguin nebulizer and it came with an adorable elephant face mask. Alex wanted no part of that elephant. He got upset and would only do the treatment with the mouth piece. We need to continue this every 4 hours as needed. We go back on Tuesday for a recheck. We are very thankful that Alex has been handling all of this so well.

"Pedro" the Penguin and Alex

1 comment:

The Baughers said...

Poor guy! I'm glad he's handling everything so well and you were able to get in with dr. yesterday. The two of you were missed at the park!