Hospital

Ricky started up with coughing, wheezing and chest tightness last Thursday. The pediatrician saw him and put him on Biaxin and the CF doc upped the strength of his Advair inhaler. By Monday he was not better so I had him seen again when Misty was having her well baby visit. His lungs sounded crackly still and generally not well. Pedi got ahold of the CF doc and we were told to come Tuesday. So we saw the CF doc on Tuesday. Still crackly, lung function down 20%, and x-ray show partial atelectasis (collapsed lung) and minor infiltrates, both in the left lung. She said he needed to go into the hospital… But there were no beds available. So we were sent home with an rx for Levaquin and orders to start doing thAIRapy vest again (we’ve been doing the hand-held Acapella) and up the hypertonic saline treatments to 3x per day.

I heard “no news” from the CF nurse a couple of times Wednesday and then finally got a call around 3 in the afternoon… They had a bed. Not in the usual CF unit but they’ll move him over when there’s a bed there. So Ricky is in and doing fine. Misty and I left him once his IV was in. He’s been out for a year and a half. Guess it’s just time. Please keep Ricky in your thoughts, with wishes for a speedy recovery!