More and More Like his Father Every Day

On Wednesday morning, we noticed that Skyler's eye infection was back!!!! We immediately took him to the doctor to get the scoop on his poor eyes. We were not expecting this ... He had an ear infection and sinus infection, along with the eye infection. The doctor told us that the eye infection was a result of the ear and sinus infection that he has probably been battling for a few weeks (all that night waking was for a reason)! He put the poor little baby on antibiotics. He also told us that he is not contagious and that the last eye infection that he had was not contagious either! Oh well, I guess I was fooling myself with the idea that we did really great hand washing.

On Thursday night (when Brendan and I were supposed to be watching Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice), Skyler's cough got worse. It was every 10-15 seconds, but not very flemmy. We tried a bath, vick's baby rub, a blessing, TLC in Mommy and Daddy's bed .... nothing worked. After about 2 hours the Doctor was called into the situation ... Result ... take him to urgent care. Now for any of you that don't know Skyler very well ... He has never been a really sick kid and we have never had to take him to the doctor at night! I was very nervous for the little guy. The Doctor at the urgent care said that he heard some wheezing in the cough and put him on a nebulizer treatment of albuteral ... WHAT ... Like I said, more and more like his father every day!!!! Here is a picture of us attempting to keep him still for the treatment ... (we were glad he was tired)



BTW ... no one told me that albuteral would make him so hyper until after the treatment ... like when he was running around like a crazy man! Here is a picture of him rocking himself very fast (especially for 11:30 at night) ...



We left urgent care with a prescription for albuteral to be given to Skyler every 4-6 hours for the next three days. But, after only three hours, he was requiring the treatment again! Hopefully this will clear up fast ....

The jury is still out on whether these are the first signs of asthma. The Doctor said that they do not like to diagnose things like that so soon. He said that they call this Reactive Airway Disease. I think we will wait to hear what his normal ped has to say about the situation. Please keep Skyler in your prayers.