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28212. arkymalarky - 9/19/2014 6:25:36 PM Only in Gurdon, AR would a restaurant's decor include a picture of a gutted deer. 28213. judithathome - 9/19/2014 6:31:21 PM Please tell me that isn't the pizza place! 28214. arkymalarky - 9/19/2014 8:19:09 PM Haha! No, but man the food is fantastic, with homegrown cucumbers and tomatoes and the best sliced brisket I ever ate. Fortunately the pic didn't show the deer from the front. 28215. arkymalarky - 9/19/2014 8:20:35 PM And pies 28216. iiibbb - 9/25/2014 7:51:52 PM Tough week. Son 2 gets away from my wife and runs in front of a car on way out of daycare. Luckily, parent driver, not local student driver. All is well, but scary. I know the boy is subject to some impulsiveness, but he usually gives a signal when he's about do do something crazy.
Son 1 has asthma-like symptoms every so often; he started coughing last week, but his breathing took a turn last night. Mostly just rapid with a slight wheeze. Give him a nebulizer treatment and all's well. This morning it was getting bad and we were trying to decide whether to hold off for his dr or take him to the hospital. We chose Dr in part because it wasn't _that_ bad yet and we didn't want to expose him unnecessarily to the hospital and risk him getting this entero virus that's giving kids like him fits. By the time he got to the dr he'd thrown up... so a major turn. Sigh. My greatest fear his him not breathing it drives me crazy, and the fact that he's not_quite_got_asthma makes it really hard to definitively say Emergency Room because it's as likely...if not more likely... to just clear on it's own. I think for this I'm going to buy one of those O2 sensors so I can measure his blood O2 level.
28217. judithathome - 9/25/2014 8:25:37 PM It's a sad state of affairs in this country that people are leery of taking their kids to a hospital for fear it will make them WORSE.
I certainly feel for you, 3i3b...it must be maddening weighing all these options while also under the normal stress of just worrying about the health of your child. 28218. judithathome - 9/25/2014 8:28:27 PM I can say, with the luxury of 50 years passed, that I was reluctant to take my son to the hospital, too, but it DID save his life...well, it afforded him 40+ more years, at least. 28219. iiibbb - 9/25/2014 9:29:37 PM Well, he's one of the at-risk peole for this virus. It was a wrinkle. He also deteriorated quickly.
I don't think the dr was just being nice when he said that given the timing of things we didn't do it wrong. But by the time he was in the office It was definitely pushing. Steroids...nebulizing...antibiotics in case pneumonia is an issue.
Based on how fast it came on it might just be the Enterovirus in the news. 28220. iiibbb - 9/25/2014 9:30:41 PM Dr also said the o2 sensor would just make me crazy 28221. judithathome - 9/25/2014 10:55:24 PM You...AND the kid.
It's not easy but in my opinion, it's best to try and NOT "hover" too much. I've seen parents make their kids into hypochondriacs by being TOO concerned about every little twinge.
Not suggesting you're doing that, by any means...just an observation. 28222. arkymalarky - 9/26/2014 12:33:27 AM that advice comes too late for me. poor Mose needs to read that before she has kids. 28223. arkymalarky - 9/26/2014 12:33:41 AM that advice comes too late for me. poor Mose needs to read that before she has kids. 28224. iiibbb - 9/26/2014 1:28:08 AM I don't think it'd drive him crazy... we're already slapping a mask on him and having him breath a medicated mist for 15 minutes... every 4 hours when it's bad.
I really hope he outgrows this. I still think he will. We have a follow up with the Dr tomorrow.
I was thinking the o2 sensor because I am very metric oriented. Counting breaths is less satisfying that knowing the oxygen saturation of the blood.
We are no helicopters. I've very much into letting them spread their wings a bit... but a kid that can't breath is the worst thing I can imagine. 28225. arkymalarky - 9/26/2014 2:38:27 AM as one who really wishes I'd dealt with it as a kid, if you get him allergy tested and deal with that if results are positive, that could help more than anything. I've had students who had allergy shots when they were little who had zero problems as teens. 28226. arkymalarky - 9/26/2014 2:39:01 AM breathing problems 28227. iiibbb - 9/27/2014 1:27:52 AM We're going to do a low dose steroid theough the winter.
It's also not that we avoided the emergency room because we only thought it might make it worse. There's also the issue of having him seen by people who know his history. There is a cetrai. Type of care you get in an ER that is different than the type of care you get from your own Dr. 28228. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 3:54:04 AM has he been allergy tested? what do they think is causing his breathing problems? 28229. iiibbb - 9/27/2014 12:13:17 PM Next week. Allergist. Have had this appointment for a while.
28230. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 2:54:49 PM oh good. if he's positive they can really help. it takes a lot of time and commitment, but it works. they'll give you lots of guidance in dealing with the current situation too. 28232. arkymalarky - 9/27/2014 2:55:07 PM oh good. if he's positive they can really help. it takes a lot of time and commitment, but it works. they'll give you lots of guidance in dealing with the current situation too.
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