RSV

My poor baby has RSV.  He has had a cough for a few weeks but it was more like a hey look at me cough.  It wasn't until last Wednesday that his cough turned into a mean cough.  Then followed by a green snotty nose.  I called Dr. Eastham's office and they told me that there was nothing to worry about unless it lasted more than 10 days, had a fever of 101 or higher, had stopped eating, had less that 3 wet diapers in a 24 hour period, was in respiratory distress, and so on and so on.  She said that he was too young for Benadryl and that we would just have to wait it out.  Well Monday night Ryan had me listen to his lungs with my stethoscope and his lungs sounded horrible.  If he was quiet long enough you could even hear with without the stethoscope.  So to ease Ryan's mind he called the Dr. office and Dr. Libby Long called us back.  She said to bring him on in in the morning just to check him out.  So we did. Walk-in hours are between 8-9.  We got there at 8 and the place was packed! We finally got back to see Dr. Eastham around 9:30.  We explained to him what all was going on and he took a listen for himself.  We were right, it had gone to his lungs.  He talked to us a little while and then decided to test him for RSV even though it was no longer RSV season because he was still seeing cases of RSV.  So he proceeded to take a swab and as Dr. Eastham called it, took a brain biopsy.  Liam was not happy about that!!  We waited for about 10 minutes and he came back in to tell us that it was positive.  In Dr. Easthams own words, "RSV is one of the thousand things that I can diagnose patients, but there ain't a dang that I can do for it."  I just love him!  So he said to just keep doing what we are doing and the cough could last 2-4 weeks.  He keeps running a low grade temp too, so I keep giving him Tylenol.  It seems to help his cough too.  Ryan wanted me to stay home with him today so I did. He is a happy sick baby so he still acts himself until he starts coughing and then he gets upset but otherwise he is a happy sick baby.

Watching the Preds with daddy ....

 It's so hard being a baby ...

 Our new travel high chair

 My happy sick baby :)