What a week

Well our weeks are not getting any better.

Garrett woke up with 104 fever last Saturday morning. We waited though the weekend hoping the fever would break. He still had it on Monday morning and was breathing fast and hard and was very miserable. I took to see his doctor on Monday afternoon. They got him breathing better with a nebulizer but it didn't do a whole lot for him. I then insisted on a chest X-ray. I have pretty good instincts. I had a feeling Garrett had pneumonia again and I was right. It was in a different spot then last time. Garrett doctor was convinced he had Pneumonia caused by RSV. They did the RSV test and sent us home with an RX. Garrett was basically miserable still on Wed and not getting better. I took him back to the doctor and they checked him out again since it sounded like he was breathing through Velcro. They gave him another breathing treatment and checked his oxygen levels. The breathing treatment still didn't do anything for him. :-( Garrett's oxygen levels were OK a little above 90. I guess 90 and less you have to go to the hospital. Garrett RSV test was not back yet but his doctor was convinced the RSV was causing the problems. By late Wed night Garrett turned a corner and was walking around the house giggling. Thur we got the results of his RSV test. They were negative.

Garrett doctor had told me if the RSV result came back positive then this pneumonia did not count against him. I guess if they get more then 2 pneumonia's in a year then they start to worry and start looking at other things. Well Garrett Doctor keeps chalking everything up to daycare. "Daycareitis" He was not concerned. That was not very comforting for me to hear. I heard the way too often when I was pregnant with Gavin before he was diagnosed with Potter's Syndrome. That seem to be their way of trying to make you feel better. I was fed up with that. So I spent 2 days trying to get Garrett doctor on the phone to ask more questions. Mike took the call when the results came back. Mike and I are really concerned since Garrett has had two pneumonia's in 6 weeks and he has pretty much been chronically sick since he started daycare last June. Every week he seems to have something. Only one other boy in his class is also sick alot. Others are not sick at all.

So after finally getting Garrett doctor on the phone and asking questions. I got him to agree to a more active approach since we have no family history. Instead of waiting to see if he is going to get Pneumonia for a 3rd time this winter he agreed to run some test. I'm taking him on Tuesday for a blood draw. They going to check his immune system. We do know he immune system is working since the U did titers to see if his immunizations from Korea were working. He had all the antibodies. But he could still have a some part not working properly. So were going to rule that out. Then Wed we are going to Children's hospital in Minneapolis for cystic fibrosis test. That is one thing they worry about when children get multiple pneumonia's. This will help us start ruling out if something more underlying is causing him to be sick all the time. It does sound like CF is very rare in Asian children. More common in Caucasians.

In the mean time we have been meeting with lots of in home daycare providers. Man are there some scary ones out there. We have one more interview on Monday and hope to make a decision on Monday night. I have found on lady I really like.

Say a few prayer for G this week. He hates his blood drawn. The CF test is not going to be fun either.

I hope we hear all good new and it really is "daycareitis". If that the case hopefully getting him in an in home daycare will help cut down on the illness a little bit. In January alone. Garrett missed 8 days of daycare.

Annette