March 20, 2006

web stats and a little wheezer

i just found some web statistics and i'll tell ya what - they'll make you want to keep posting regularly! i had done pretty good this year and then this month i got a bit upset about school, a bit stressed with work, and a bit occupied with jake being sick.

on wednesday evening, jake had started getting his cough back and thursday afternoon, preschool had to call me to come get him for the first time. he had a 102 fever so we set up a dr. appt. that afternoon and they prescribed 6 (!!!) medicines for him! two were breathing treatments, two were allergy prevention meds since allergies here are apparently among the worst in the country, one was a stronger round of amoxycilin to fight off the possibility of pneumonia, and the last one was a disgusting tasting steroid (take jake's word on it) for the stress on his lung passages from the expanding/despanding (?) involved with breathing troubles. he took most of the meds thursday night and then we got to the steroid which caused him to gag and throw up (in our bed yay) and consequently scared him from taking any medicines for 2-3 days. needless to say it was a weekend of bartering barney, elmo, and bob the builder for taking medicine and sitting through breathing treatments. he's feeling better, but still wheezing. poor guy.

Posted by smc at March 20, 2006 11:21 AM
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Aww poor guy! My daughter has asthma (which started out much the same way) - I can give her a breathing treatment in her sleep now, she's so used to it. We've done the same meds rounds too! Hope he's feeling better soon! I think you can ask the pharmacist to add some flavoring to the steroids. Or barter with a promise of chocolate milk after taking the medicine. Ooh, or I just remembered a trick - let him take a spoonful of chocolate syrup first (with the promise of taking the meds) - it coats the mouth/throat so they don't taste it as much.

My daughter is on a breathing treatment steroid now for maintenance - umm.. pulmocort. Since starting that, we haven't needed oral ones anymore.

Posted by: misschatter at March 20, 2006 01:54 PM

Thanks for the tips. We're hoping to avoid asthma, but the symptoms sound similar. The steroid actually _does_ have a flavoring in it, but it still smells like grape + nasty. Some bartering works, but he's just a smidge too young (2 yrs., 1 month) to understand some of it. We tried mixing it _with_ chocolate milk, but he could tell :-)

I welcome any further suggestions. :-)

Posted by: smc at March 20, 2006 03:01 PM

on a lighter side, you might discuss this with barry bonds... i hear he knows of numerous methods for taking / injecting 'roids. of course, all of that is specualtion from what i hear. :-)

Posted by: kg at March 20, 2006 03:46 PM