Here's the scoop...
Monday, Parker ended up at the pedicatrician. I was so worried about Payton not sounding good that it was a little strange to wake up to Parker sounding awful. It didn't take too long for the doc to call it - croup. With aggrivated BPD, reactive airway, and stridor. It sounded a little like he was always sucking air through a straw. So onto a weeks worth of oral steroids and ramp up the breathing treatments.
Tuesday was Early Intervention. We had out PT, OT, speech, and developmental therapists, case worker and a student all come to the house for our review. They have met every goal that's been put for them so at thsi time, PT, OT and developmental have discharged us. If in the future we need them, we can call and they can come do a new evaluation. Speech has also discharged Payton, but will continue to see Parker for an expressive speech delay.
Wednesday was Payton's turn at pulmonology. She sounded so awful on Tuesday night that if she had had a fever, I would have taken her to the E.R. But we held out at home since we were first up Wednesday morning. The pulmonologist says that she's normal for her - just crappy lungs. The P.A. thought she sounded ok when we were there. If she had souded bad while we were there, we'd of been sent downstairs for xrays. They gave us a script for oral steroids in case she started to go downhill, hoping that would be enough to keep her out of the E.R. They also gave us the inhaler form of one of her breathing treatments. We can use it with her special spacer to take the medicine if we're out and about and she starts to sound a little rough. Next visit will be in 6 months.
Thursday was the NICU follow-up clinic. Luckily Chris came with me to this one because they split them into two rooms to see what they could do without watching each other. When they brought them back together and asked them to do a few things, they were completely over being there. The doc made everyone leave the room and would poke his head in to tell us what to get them to do, then the group of them watched through the two-way mirror at the end of the room. They gave us referrals to a few new places to address some issues, but said that overall things look good and we were being discharged from there as well.
That's the latest from here. They're both holding their own and both just have a cold that hasn't evolved into anything else (fingers crossed!). This week is pretty quiet on the doctor front (fingers crossed again!) except for finally seeing the allergist for Parker.
By the end of it all - with a 2 hour drive home Wednesday nigth from the ice - with work, laundry, groceries, and life, I need a vacation to recover :)
And I promise coming soon....some special events coming up!
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