Dinosaur Masks

Oliver has had a cough that has just been hanging on for quite awhile and after two nights of no good sleep for him, we called the doctor this morning and took him into convenient care. She said his lungs sounded somewhat wheezy and crackly so she wanted to try a breathing treatment at the office to see how he responded to it. Luckily, he responded well to it (she was throwing around pneumonia if the breathing treatment didn't help right away). So we were sent home from the doctor with a nebulizer and had to go pick up albuterol from the pharmacy.

He doesn't seem to bothered by the cough itself, it is the worst at nighttime so we'll see how tonight goes after 3 breathing treatments. The plan is to continue the treatments for sure as long as he is doing any coughing and then reevaluate after that. She said it could possible that he would benefit from getting breathing treatments all winter long- not exactly fun, but if it keeps him healthy, we'll do it. We go back to the doctor on Wednesday to see how he is doing. As of right now, she has given us the okay to travel to New York for the weekend, but wanted to see us the day before we leave to give us the final okay.

Oliver is getting much better with the treatments. At the doctor's office today, he screamed and cried and kept trying to pull it away from his face- not the most fun for anyone involved- but on the bright side, he was taking lots of deep breaths with his screaming so that helps get the medicine to him better. At home, we rented a new Dora movie and have done both treatments while watching Dora and after the initial fit of having to do the treatment, he relaxes and just sits and watches Dora. As you can see in the pictures above, he is pretty calm.

So that was our Sunday excitement. Hopefully this helps and we all get a little better sleep tonight and he gets feeling better.

Have a good week!