WELCOME to our blog! Our family began in August of 2000 when Jody and I were married and has grown into a family of 6! We have 3 beautiful daughters and 1 handsome son! This blog was created in January of 2006 for our family and friends and to serve as a scrapbook for our kiddos in the years to come! Jody is the youth minister at our church and I am a stay at home mom! Here you will find stories and pictures from Living Life Livingston Style...we love to hear your comments too, more motivation for blogging :)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Pediatrian Found

Two weeks ago we were forced to find a pediatrician, finding a pediatrician was not on the top of my to do list when we moved...Jack had a fever for about 3 days, it would go down during the day and come back up in the evenings. After 2 nights of him not sleeping and the combination of him deciding not to eat or drink (absolutely not like him) much of anything I knew we had to find a pediatrician and fast!
Since we are new to the area we asked some of the ladies Jody works with for some suggestions, I called and got him in within 2 hours! The doctors office is only about 2 miles from our house and 2 miles from the church, it's actually on the way to the church from our house, which has already worked out really well! The office staff and nurse were awesome, the doctor came in and Jack didn't freak out! He ended up with a double ear infection and bronchialitis (bronchitis in an infant). He was wheezing pretty bad so they gave him a breathing treatment in the office (which he didn't really mind probably because he was not feeling good at all)! The rest of the day was crazy trying to figure out where to send the prescriptions, what the insurance would cover and picking up the prescriptions all the while me not knowing where i was going and just plain pooped from having sick kiddos (the girls had had coughs a few days before Jack)! He ended up on antibiotics twice a day for 10 days and breathing treatments 4 times a day for 7 days then as needed for wheezing. His pediatrician said he'd have a cough for up to three weeks! He loves the antibiotic, cries when it's all gone and he didn't really mind the breathing treatments the first day, but ever since he's fought us tooth and nail! The nebulizer does have a paci attachment (pictured), which he took for the first couple of treatments, but then as soon as the machine started he spit it out! He got a cute penguin nebulizer with an igloo carrying case though :) Jody has had asthma since he was very small and was on all kinds of medicines and breathing treatments, he was definitely jealous of Jack's nebulizer! The day after starting the meds and breathing treatments Jack slept great and started eating again! The medicine they have him on for the breathing treatments makes him very irritable and feisty, not too much different than normal, but we can tell a difference! We're just glad to see our little man getting better :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i'm glad he is feeling better!! :0)

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