Yup, Alex has been sick since Saturday night. It started during the night when he woke us up with a dry hacking cough. After doing a little research we were pretty convinced it was a croup type cough and so we did all the stuff your supposed to do to treat croup. We put the vaporizer on in his room and had him in the shower to breath in the warm moist air but he kept getting worse throughout the day.<\/p>\n
We called the nurses on call service and they suggested we get him to breath some moist air, put a vaporizer in the room, and take him outside for a bit to breath the cold air. After I told them that we had already done all that stuff they checked what the next course of treatment was and it was come on down to the hospital for a checkout.<\/p>\n
Luckily the hospital has a referral clinic where only people who have been referred are allowed to go so we were in and out pretty fast. (We walked past the emergency room and it was just overflowing with people.) They said that there wasn’t a whole lot we could do for him but to expect it to get worse during the night.<\/p>\n
Get worse it did. He got a fever at night and twice we had to change his clothes because he was so soaked through with sweat. We gave him some motrin and managed to get the fever back under control but it kept coming and going.<\/p>\n
On Monday he was still coughing quite a bit and the fever kept coming back so we took him in to see the doctor. He prescribed some antibiotics which Alex needs to take for next six days which should help out. Now, only if we could get him to take it. One of the side affects of taking the medicine is “nausea and vomiting” and of course after the first dose he threw up.<\/p>\n
I think things are starting to look up tonight. We managed to get his medicine down after much struggling and it stayed down and he’s showing more signs of energy then he’s had the last couple of days so lets hope we’ve turned the corner on the road to getting better.
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Yup, Alex has been sick since Saturday night. It started during the night when he woke us up with a dry hacking cough. After doing a little research we were pretty convinced it was a croup type cough and so … Continue reading