Thursday, January 29, 2009

Rough few days


Kadens had a rough time for the last few days.He's had a cough mainly at night time for the past three weeks.But a couple of days ago he started coughing during the day and it was like coughing fit - he couldn't stop.So i took him to the doctor on Tuesday and he checked him over and gave him an antibiotic for a weeks course.But on the Wednesday he seemed worse and he'd been up all night coughing and choking and being sick while on his pump,so in the end i switched his pump off to see if he would settle - but it didn't give him any relief and he was also bringing back up his medicine.I called the same doctor again who had agreed to see him again the next day if he hadn't improved.When Kaden was breathing you could hear like a rattle,and i was concerned it might be in his chest.So we went back to the doctor to get him checked over.After a thorough check the doctor said he felt now that the cold was now in Kadens chest and he was going to phone the A&E hospital for them to have a look at him.We went to the hospital where there too he got a thorough check over and we were put through to the admission ward to wait for a senior doctor.The doctor came and checked Kaden over and sais yes he had a wet cough and it had gone into his chest.They did an X-Ray to check and see how his lungs were doing and whether he needed any additional treatment apart from his antibiotics.He explained that if the x-ray came back and they wer happy with it we could do 1 of 2 things go home (because the hospital is only 5 minutes away)on antibiotics or if the X-ray showed concern then they would keep him in and start an iv.Thankfuly the doctor came round once the X-ray was down and showed it to me and said he did have signs of something on his right lung(good lung)but the antibiotics would clear that up,so if we were happy we could go home and keep giving him the antibiotics for a week.Speaking to the doctor also i mentioned his spine is being pushed over to the right,which we had noticed before but seems to be getting worse.He said they do see this often with CDH babies and he'd mention it to the orthopedic surgeon to see if we can look into it.Then he gave us the go ahead to go home if we wanted to :-
So of course we jumped at the chance to go home,and thankfuly Kaden had a better nights sleep last night only waking twice,compared with every 10-15 minutes the previous night.
This is Kaden chillin the other day having a snooze.

1 comment:

Vicki Jensen said...

I hope Kaden starts feeling better soon. It's so scary when our babies get even a 'regular' cold. It seems like it goes straight to their chests! I hope the antibiotics have started helping by now.
Vic
Jack's mom