On Saturday Gary had a runny nose and later that night had a fever. I figured he was coming down with a cold and since he had RSV earlier this year I figured I had better get him into the Doctor today. (Monday) I decided to take Alex with me because she has had this cough for about a week and seemed to get worse on Saturday night and Sunday.
We get to the Doctor and Gary was eating so he saw Alex first. He was not happy about what he heard. Alex was wheezing really bad and her pulse-ox level was 92. It is supposed to be 99 or 100. Well they gave her an nebulizer treatment and her pulse-ox didn't change. That's not good. They waited a few minutes and gave her another treatment. These take 10-15 minutes each time. They did her pule-ox again and it was still 92. The Doc was a little concerned at this point and gave her an oral steroid to help open her lungs. Finally after 45 min they got her up to 95. An acceptable level to let us leave the office. Alex has now officially been diagnosed with Asthma.
During the treatments the looked at Gary who had finished eating. He does not have RSV thank goodness, but he does have another ear infection. His fourth one! He is congested and and needs to use the nebulizer and an inhaled steroid.
So Alex is on Prednisone for 5 days along with nebulizer treatments. Then after the 5 days she changes to an inhaled steroid through an inhaler. Gary is on Amoxicillin for his ear and then gets two different medications through the nebuilzer, a steroid twice a day and albuterol as needed.
The next few days are going to be full of fun!
Gary loves the tub. He loves water, eating, crawling, paper, you name it he loves it. He even loved taking his medicine! Crazy kid. He really is a very happy baby. He slept from 9:30 to 4:30 am last night, I was so happy. I hope it's a trend!!!
Alex and Nick are taking art lessons here in Fillmore, they have been since June. They had a formal art show to display all the kids' work. They were really excited and enjoyed being the center of attention. (So Nick doesn't look so happy in this photo, but he was in real life) The picture above Alex and Nick is Alex's. It was high on the wall and hard to get a good picture of it with the kids.
At the begining of the party Alex had a lose tooth.
This is Alex getting ready to blow out her candles.
Some of the gifts she got. She is really into my littlest pet shop and my generation dolls at target. She really wants an American girl but we showed her how much more she could get at target for the same price. Now she LOVES target dolls.
Emma found the fake teeth that Alex got in a goody bag and tried them on. It was too funny! That is nacho chesse on her chin left over from lunch!
Here are my little ones all ready for halloween night. Alex was a Tiger(Not our cat but a real tiger), Nicolas was Buzz, Emma was a ladybug and Gary was a little Devil.
Gary in his outfit. Isn't he cute!
Emma as a lady bug.
And NIck as Buzz. Alex and Nick used hand me down costumes and I got Emma's and Gary's for 10 dollars each. Halloween only cost me 20.00. Whoo hooo!
These are the last pictures we have of Tiger. We got him in Utah in June from my brother Shaun. We tried to keep him an indoor cat but. he insisted on going outside. Last week I heard a attack and the cat meowing. I ran outside at 2:00am and saw two coyotes run off. There was no cat to be found. He was a good kitty and Gary really liked him. The kids said that he went to live with grandpa!
