We met with the pediatric allergist/immunologist today. He's not totally sure that chunk's issues are environmental. He did tell us to go ahead with the plan to get rid of the carpeting left in the house and the mold test. He said there is a definite wheeze there, but that there's also a lot of upper respiratory noise.
The plan is to switch up his meds. He'll be on Flovent and Singulair instead of Pulmicort. He's also doing another round of antibiotics and prednisone. The hope is that by switching meds we see a change in his breathing and that the antibiotics and prednisone clear up what's causing it. He thinks that there's some bug causing him to get sick and that last time he was on the antibiotics it didn't get it all.
So, no real answers yet. Hoping to see some change this weekend. We go back Monday for a recheck.
And in Spawn news, we've made the decision to go forward with taking his adenoids out. He responded well to the antibiotics, so they think that there was a long sinus infection causing some of his troubles, but he's still having issues sleeping and still has a small annoying cough and stuffy nose. He feels that since he's responded well to treatment so far that this is one of the last puzzle pieces in figuring out what's going on. He even told Spawn that he feels that after surgery he might be able to wean off all his meds and be med free this time next year! I like that he really includes Spawn in all of our discussions and makes sure that he understand every thing we've done or are planning on doing. Spawn did admit that he's nervous about having surgery, but he's excited at the prospect of not needed to be on an inhaler and nasal spray all the time. His surgery is scheduled for Aug 7.
So I've been a downer the last few posts...but Spawn wants to start some stuff school wise, so we'll be jumping into a light schedule this coming week. He's so excited!
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