Bronchiloltis

That's what Antonio has and it is not fun.

I suppose it could be worse, a lot worse so for that, I am thankful. Ever since Antonio got his flu shot back on December 14th (nasal spray version) he has been fighting something. He had a cold for about a week and then seemed to get better. Then he got sucker punched New Year's Eve day. He woke up with a congested cough but it seemed to go away later in the day. The next he woke up the same way but we went about our day and I'm still in debate on whether that was a bad idea or not. Every day since, he has gotten progressively worse. We kept him home Thursday and then Friday from daycare after throwing up Wednesday night and having a fever. The cough went from very congested to hardly congested. The cough is pretty aggressive and I can tell when he coughs its a hard cough. His face gets red and coughs for a good 2 min straight. It has to hurt his throat, head, chest and everything else.

Friday we had an appointment to have him checked out but he ended up sleeping well after when we should have left so we canceled it. We planned to take him to the walk-in Saturday but the waits at all of them were anywhere from 1.5 hrs to 3 hrs!  We decided to wait to see how he was doing. Well the cough was consistent and didn't get any better and again kept him up all night. In fact there was a point where he coughed for a good 5 min straight last night. It made my ribs and throat hurt just listening to him. :(. So the plan was to get up and go to the walk-in when they opened. When we got there, we were a good 6 people deep in line at 9am, when the opened. It was about 40m before we were taken back. The dr saw us pretty quickly after we went back, maybe 10m later. She listened to him breathe and noticed a lot of wheezing. She looked in his throat and said it looked pretty red so she took a strep swab, which Antonio hated but rocked! She had him go down to X-ray to have his chest looked at.


My throat has been hurting me for a couple days now so she took a strep test from me too. Happily both our tests came back negative! She came back after she got the results from that and she looked at his X-rays. (That took forever, maybe 30 min!) She said his lungs looked ok, a little fluid in them but that he doesn't have pneumonia but definitely has bronchiolitis. :(.   She said if he didn't get any better in the next couple days to bring him in again. She prescribed him an inhaler to help at night (or day) when he starts coughing a lot. Besides that we just have to wait it out. Make sure he gets enough fluids, use a cool mist vaporizer and give him Tylenol to reduce his fevers and help with "pain", which we have been doing.  Since it is pretty contagious he isn't allowed to go back to daycare until he is better.

I also was diagnosed with the beginning stages of bronchitis and was told to not go to work since I was also contagious. She also said that I should take emercen-c packets which I already do so she suggested that I doubled up on them. The one good thing with not being avle to go to work is that the daycare issue is taken care of. I hope to send Antonio back to daycare and I back to work Thursday. Fingers crossed for that.  Until then, rest, drink fluids and get better! Oh and keep Albert healthy!

On a side note....Antonio is 40 lbs!!!!!!! Holy cow! So turns out we hadn't been giving the right dosage of tylenol, not enough.  So when we got home we gave him some more, the right amount and he napped. Already he seems to be doing better. Maybe the right dosage really is the key?!  Anyways, send  healthy vibes our way, we need them!