So, Monday morning I called the pediatrician to schedule a follow up appointment for Sadie. Her doctor, along with the one on call that saw her in the hospital were both full for awhile, so she got scheduled with the nurse practitioner for 8AM on Wednesday. Ugh, 8AM with a new baby. Not looking forward to that.
Tuesday, Benson woke up wheezing pretty badly. He'd had a runny nose and a cough for awhile, but the wheezing caused me to call the pediatrician and schedule an appointment for him. Miraculously, he got in that afternoon with our regular pediatrician. Yay!
So, that afternoon, I took Benson and Sadie in to the doctor. Benson did great, doing everything the doctor asked of him. We did a nebulizer treatment on him while we were there and then the doctor listened to his breathing again. Benson was breathing a little better, so he was prescribed a nebulizer so we could do treatments at home. I also talked to the doctor about Benson's excema on his legs. It had been pretty bad for awhile. He suggested doing an allergy test for a few of the major thungs like eggs, milk, wheat, etc. They could take a little blood in the office and have it tested. So, I decided to go ahead and do that. Benson didn't enjoy it very much, but as soon as they offered him a sucker, he was fine.
I also mentioned to the doctor that I had an appointment in the morning for Sadie and how I wasn't able to get in to him. He said that he could do her check-up right then. (Yes!). So he checked her out and the nurse did her thing and we were all set and didn't need to come in the next morning. Hooray!
****Just an update, I got a call from the nurse today and the results came back from Benson's allergy test. He has multiple food allergies. So the doctor is referring him to an asthma and allergy clinic. Yay. Another doctor. We should be hearing from them within the next couple of days.
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