Monday, May 7, 2012

Got it down!


I use to hold Cole while he would do his doses of nebulized medicine but we've done it so much lately that he grabs the mouth piece and pushes me away and does it himself.  Cole has had these violent coughing fits lately that have stumped Dr. after Dr.  We've taken him to the 5 min. Clinic and then to a pediatric Dr. and then to a Asthma/Allergy Specialist.  All of which have tried different treatments and none of them really gave him a diagnosis they just said, "Lets try this."  $800(most of which was for prescriptions) later we still have coughing fits.  Darryl and I came to the conclusion that it had to be whooping cough because the cough lasted about 8 weeks which is typical of whooping cough.  The doctors just didn't think he could have no other symptoms if it were whooping cough.  They said a 2 year old would be weak, tired, not sleeping, not eating, fevering. . . something.  He wasn't he was super happy and normal except for the coughing fits.  We finally got him down to see Grandma Bosshardt and she did Body Talk and the next night he slept through the night and the coughing fits were much milder during the day until they went away.  I felt bad we hadn't done that sooner before we'd pumped him full of prescriptions that did nothing for him.  In about 2 weeks time he'd had 7 different prescriptions.  Yikes!  I'm so glad this one is over!

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