Okay, so Kaitlyn all of a sudden crashed yesterday.... she has been fighting another infection for about a month now. Her pediatrician put her on a liquid z-pack two weeks ago... she was still congested when we saw Dr. F (pulmonologist) last Wednesday, but because she had already done 4 rounds of antibiotics in the last 5 months he really didn't want to do another round, so we just added manual CPT. She's been about the same since then until yesterday. She scared the heck out of me at karate, I really thought she might pass out.... but her inhaler helped a little. She did a round of breathing treatments as soon as we got home, but then she complained of a sore throat and of course she had been sneezing and coughing up more "junk" even during karate. What Kaitlyn neglected to tell me earlier was she had had some trouble at school as well... I didn't find that out until I talked to her teacher this morning. She said Kaitlyn had some trouble breathing earlier in the day and went down to the nurse for her inhaler.... had I known that, we would have skipped karate, which is probably why Kaitlyn didn't mention it. Her sensai had to tell her not to push herself so hard, the girl is one tough cookie!
So anyways, we lucked out and Dr. F had an opening this afternoon. He said last week her FEV1 was 94% and today it had dropped to 83% still not bad, but a considerable drop, and he said she is definitely more congested, so he put her on round 5 of antibiotics and said she should stay home the rest of the week and increase the breathing treatments to 3x/day. We still have to go back and see him next week to see if this round of antibiotics is working.
I did ask again if I should take her out of regular school and home school her instead, but he still feels that is not necessary at this point. I want to at least let her finish this year and then we'll see.... for now she gets an extended presidents weekend.
(picture from 1/30/11)
P.S. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers for Kaitlyn!!!!!
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