3 Dr. Visits + 2 Kids in the Hospital + 1 x-Ray Appointment = One Busy Week!

However, I am happy to report that both girls finally seem to be doing a bit better. Hadley actually has been doing pretty good since we left the hospital on Wednesday. She took really well to the treatments and still gets a bit winded at times, but overall is doing really well! Seville on the other hand really didn’t sound any better on Wednesday night or Thursday, so we had a “meeting of the minds” appointment with her pediatrician yesterday late afternoon and she spent well over an hour with us and I think we are finally getting somewhere. She thinks that whereas Hadley ONLY has croup, Seville on the other hand has croup complicated by something else??? That something else is the question we are trying to get answered ASAP. She didn’t think it was pneumonia, but we went ahead and had a chest x-ray this morning to rule that out. It was negative, so that is GREAT!! They also took one of her neck and her adenoids are enlarged, so we will have to see where that ends up fitting into the picture. The next step is to get her tested for allergies and asthma, so we have that appointment set-up for next Wednesday. The pediatrician thinks it is fairly likely that she has asthma to some degree. In talking with Scott’s mom this morning she informed me that Scott’s allergies were always much worse in the fall and that he was very allergic to tree mold and ragweed, so it will be interesting to see what the tests reveal next Wednesday. In the meantime she is on breathing treatments every 4 hours (that seem to be helping quite a bit this time around) and oral steroids. I am not sure if I mentioned before that one year ago on September 18th was when Seville started breathing treatments and ended up on them for 3+ months. We don’t want to go down that road again, so that is why we are trying to get to the bottom of this. If my home computer was working I would post a picture of her on her breathing machine last year, but it’s not! We are going to try to figure that out this weekend!

Have a great weekend everyone! We are going to watch my nephew, Sam, play football tonight and then tomorrow night the girls on the street are scrapbooking! Fun, fun!