Ricky had his sleep study last week. It was fairly uneventful, aside from him having trouble getting to sleep due to all of the wires and leads all over him.
The results are supposed to have been back within a week but now they are telling us it could be another week or two. However, the preliminary results reflect mild sleep apnea and low oxygen saturation (90-95% when it should be 96%+). I guess this means we will see what the rest of the results are and then find out what the doctors want to do next.
In good news, last week plus this week he has only been out of school one day aside from the MLK holiday. This is a vast improvement... He has been out of one class or another 22 days already this school year! Ugh!
More news when I get it. :)
Friday, January 21, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Close call
Ricky was pretty sick last night, wheezing and coughing. Today he was not much better even after lots of breathing treatments. I ended up getting him in to see the pulmonologist and though his O2 was down a little bit, his PFTs were pretty great, and his lungs sounded okay too. So we went home with prescriptions for Prednisone and Levaquin. Sounds like he just has some reactive airway stuff going on. Whew. Of course, tonight he started to spike a fever and had trouble sleeping... So we'll see what tomorrow holds. But at least he didn't get admitted.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
quick update
Just a quick update for the new year.
Ricky has had a few doctor appointments recently and I FINALLY got the neurology nurse and pulmonology nurse to confer and get Ricky a sleep study. For Pete's sake, the kid has been missing more days of school than he has been in, with being sleepy, dizzy, etc. So on January 11 he's spending the night at PEC (the peds unit Dave used to manage, ironically, though they are in a fancy new facility now) for a sleep study and hopefully we will get some answers. He has been having migraines too, but at least there is Imitrex for that. There is nothing we have found so far that helps with the other stuff.
Good news... He grew a few inches in 2010! Could this mean that he's finally entering puberty? Time will tell! We see the endocrinologist in early 2011 and hopefully we'll get some answers.
Ricky has had a few doctor appointments recently and I FINALLY got the neurology nurse and pulmonology nurse to confer and get Ricky a sleep study. For Pete's sake, the kid has been missing more days of school than he has been in, with being sleepy, dizzy, etc. So on January 11 he's spending the night at PEC (the peds unit Dave used to manage, ironically, though they are in a fancy new facility now) for a sleep study and hopefully we will get some answers. He has been having migraines too, but at least there is Imitrex for that. There is nothing we have found so far that helps with the other stuff.
Good news... He grew a few inches in 2010! Could this mean that he's finally entering puberty? Time will tell! We see the endocrinologist in early 2011 and hopefully we'll get some answers.
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