Roberts Family Blog

Well sickness has firmly come to our home.  I feel like we have been in and out of sickness ALL winter between the four of us and I'm good and ready for it to be over. 

Last night we decided that we would take Pierce to the doctor first thing because his cough was sounding wheezy.  Then during the night Hayden got up several times and needed some rocking and cuddling, and he felt very feverish and his cough and runny nose had ramped up.  So we got the joy of a joint doctor's appointment this morning, and thankfully my mom was free to come along with me, because it ended up being quite a long one.  Hayden was checked out first (he insisted - he knows exactly what to do with all the equipment and tells the nurse so!), and she deemed it just a cold with no cause for major concern.  Unfortunately Pierce was a whole different story.  She said his chest sounded "wheezy and crackly and gurgly" - none of which is good!  She diagnosed him with bronchiolitis.  What is that you ask?  Well....

"Bronchitis is inflammation of the large airways in the chest and pneumonia is inflammation of the lung. Bronchiolitis is inflammation of the smaller airways connecting the two.  Bronchiolitis is usually a viral infection. RSV is responsible for the illness in most children."

So....my little man mostly likely has RSV (although he wasn't tested b/c the nurse said the treatment plan was the same no matter what the underlying virus was), which has turned into bronchiolitis and potentially pneumonia.  So we had to hang out at the doctor's office for two hours today while he got breathing treatments and his oxygen levels were then checked.  This poor little guy does NOT like breathing treatments, however we are giving them to him every 2 to 4 hours for the next two days at least. 

The worst part is that he has also been dealing with a double ear infection!!  This poor child.  So he is on antibiotics for that, which will also hopefully fend off the pneumonia if it develops.

This is such a nasty virus!  All of my friends kids are down and out too with varying degrees of severity.  I am VERY much hoping that everyone gets well soon, and that my boys are healthy when we board our plane on Saturday.