A Day of Doctors

Well, yesterday I was able to go to my first appointment for my pregnancy.  I am 16 weeks today.  I have a feeling this is going to go by really fast.  Especially since my second visit will be the ultrasound.  The kids keep asking me if it is a girl or a boy . . . Kayla does at least two or three times a day.  For her sake, I hope it is a girl.  She has been coming up with all sorts of girl names and talks about when the girl baby comes out and saving clothes for when they will fit the girl baby. :)

Everything is great and looking right on schedule for me.  My due date is October 9th.  Luckily, my pregnancies are pretty smooth and easy.  I don't think I could handle any complications right now anyway. :)

So that is how I spent my morning.  Bryson was able to stay home with the kids and leave for work when I got back.  It has been very handy to have him self-employed.

The afternoon is another story. . .

First I'll give a little background.  Benson woke up with a runny nose (eek) on Saturday.  Sunday, right as I got to church with the kids (Bryson and I take turns staying home with Kayla) he started coughing.  With a runny nose and a yucky cough, I was going to feel really bad taking him to nursery, so I took him back home to Bryson.

Sunday night, Benson kept waking up . . . almost every hour from when I put him down at 7PM.  Once when I went in to check on him at around 2AM or sometime around that and he was throwing up.   Great.  So, I stayed in his room the rest of the night while he tossed and turned and threw up about 4 or 5 more times.  He wasn't feverish, but what worried me was his shallow, wheezy breathing.  He finally settled down and seemed to be done throwing up and ready to just sleep some more about 7AM, so I got up and got ready to go to my doctor's appointment and went to it.

When I got back, Benson was just waking up.  He was pretty lethargic and his breathing was still shallow and wheezy.  So, I called and made him a doctor's appointment for that afternoon.

At the doctor's office, we saw the nurse practitioner because our doctor was already booked for the day.  Benson was crying and screaming throughout the entire visit, so the nurse didn't get a good listen to his breathing, but was able to tell there was an ear infection.  When she was done trying to examine him, she gave him a sucker and he stopped crying right away.  (We should have started with that).  Anyway, she got a quick listen to his breathing before he started crying again and decided that he needed chest x-rays.  Great.

So, we went down to the lab and took x-rays.  We had to wait for a little bit for 2 nurses to help hold him down because I couldn't be back there with him (pregnancy).  When that was over, we went back to the room and waited for the results.  The nurse came in and said that it wasn't pneumonia (yay) but that it was bronchiolitis (not good).  So, she prescribed a nebulizer  (I'm pretty sure I spelled that wrong) and antibiotics.

While we were there, our regular pediatrician came in to see us.  He saw that we were on the schedule and wanted to check in and see how Kayla was doing.  I thought that was really nice of him.  He had called us while we were in the hospital at the beginning of all this to say that they were thinking about and praying for us.  What a great doctor!

Anyway, we did a nebulizer treatment before we left the office because Benson's breathing was so bad.  It really helped him a lot.  Despite all of the crying and screaming, when we left, he waved and said bye-bye to the nurses.   Then we went down to the basement where Norco was and got the nebulizer and we were finally going home.  We had to stop at Walgreen's for his prescriptions first and by the time we got home, he was pretty happy and fairly normal.  Now the challenge would be to keep him away from Kayla!

He slept all night last night (yay!) and has been doing great today.  I have done some more nebulizer treatments on him that have helped and if I bribe him with a treat, he will take his antibiotics (although when he sees them he immediately pushes them away and says, "Yuck!").  So far Kayla has been good, so lets pray she doesn't get sick!