Round Three (No, Not the Weather)

Sigh. So, we made it from Christmas until last Thursday without anyone having a cold at our house. That's pretty impressive with two toddlers and a Mommy who spends time with the preschool set. Although, due to the tremendous crappyness that this February delivered, we did spend a large amount of time indoors.

Anyway, last week the kids' noses started running, and I started dreading the inevitable wheezing. We started some prophylactic nebulizer treatments with our Little Man in hopes that we could avoid oral steroids and a trip to the ER. Good try Mommy and Daddy, but no dice. By last Saturday afternoon Colin was only making it about two hours between treatments without wheezes. A call to the (now closed) pediatrician's office lead to the advice that we needed to go to the ER. Sigh. Colin was taking his afternoon nap at the time, so I let him finish it (I firmly believe that a sleeping baby should NEVER be woken). After he woke up at 4:00, he and I headed off to the ER, while Daddy stayed home with Bean.

I will say this, Colin is an angel at the ER. The nurses eat him up; heck, the doctors eat him up. They did an RSV test (negative), a HUGE, LONG breathing treatment, and started him on oral steroids. This is now his THIRD round of oral steroids since Thanksgiving. His eczema looks awesome, but COME ON.

We were at the ER for about 2 1/2 hours, which isn't too bad, all things considered. But, it's now 7:00 which is when Colin usually is headed to bed and he hasn't even had dinner yet. By the time we get home, Daddy has Gillian settled in bed for the night. So, I feed Colin some toast, banana and oatmeal for dinner (all his favorites, really), do TWO separate breathing treatment, diaper, pajamas, brush teeth, and BED. Only an hour and a half late.

Colin is doing much better; he actually never felt really sick, as you can see from the above picture taken at his post-ER meal. He finished his steroid and is done with the round-the-clock breathing treatments....for now. We check back with his regular pediatrician on Tuesday.