Sweet Baby Tate has had a cough for weeks now, at least 4. Â It was a dry cough at first, and I was doing much the same thing. Â It always felt like I had a frog in my throat that needed clearing. Â I just thought we were both suffering from allergies. Â The weather here unpredictable at best, with rain and wind blowing all the pollen and mold etc about all the time, 30 degrees one day and seriously 83 degrees the next. Â As last year it never froze or truly got cold none of the spores died. Â So now double the crap is flying about in the air. Â People are miserable.
In any event, I just thought we were suffering from allergies. Â While we were in Dallas in early January I was on a Z-pac that I requested from my friend as I felt like I had a sinus infection (Note to self who is a pediatric dentist, don’t ask S for a specific antibiotic for something of which you know nothing about; let her choose as apparently a Z-pac is not the drug of choice for a sinus infection. Â But I digress. Â Are you reading this S?). Â I just felt a little gunky and had that strange yucky taste in my throat and was congested. Â I suppose it helped as I never got a fever and I felt better a couple of days after we returned. Â I mostly didn’t want to get my girl J sick who was possibly going to need to start chemo soon after the weekend (Sadly she got bad news and has finished one round. I’m so sad for her, but I’m positive she’s going to be cured!)
Then Tate started coughing;  the dry cough.  It was  sort of constant, but never seemed to bother him and it would be one hack and then 10 or 15 minutes later another hack.  Nothing concerning though.  He just seemed to always need to clear his throat.  H also had one fantastic screaming fit and became hoarse about 3 1/2 weeks ago.  But the hoarseness has never gone away.  Again I just thought well maybe it was coincidental to the screaming fit, and his little voice was going to be changing.  Now of course when I hear him I can barely remember what he used to sound like, so I’m wondering if there has actually been a change.
However, for about a week and a half now I’ve been given him an anti-histamine at night, usually Benadryl, approved by our allergist, for the cough. Â It alleviated the cough and his sniffling while Zyrtec does not. Â I’ve been keeping him on his Singulair now almost constantly since September where as last year he got a break November – March. Â (I hate him constantly being on medications). Â But when he goes off he tends to get a bit of a dry cough (ahhhh…asthma warnings right?. Â Sigh)
But then this past Monday his teacher texted me twice saying he had been coughing all day long, so much so that he wasn’t able to nap.  He was doing fine, but poor baby had red eyes and looked so tired.  She asked if she could put a small piece of peppermint in some cold water to have him sip to help soothe his throat.  I gave my blessing of course.  He finally fell asleep after everyone else woke up, and she let him sleep an hour while keeping the other 4 kids sort of quiet, so he could rest (I love her!).  That night Tate told me “Ms. JoAnnie gave me some peppermint water, and it made my throat feel ‘bedder’.  I’m going to give her a little hug tomorrow.”  Not a big hug mind you, a little hug
Monday when I picked him up his cough was very wet and productive sounding and he coughed constantly. Â I loaded him up with Benadryl and Singulair and he happily played as usual and went to bed just fine. Â Yesterday, Tuesday, I called and made an appointment with his pediatrician for today.
My parents, who are AWESOME!, picked him up from school this morning and took him to his appointment. Â I wrote the following note for them to give to his pediatrician…
Dr. R….
When you’re ‘sick’ (his ped said he could return to daycare!) Mommy lets you have a hot dog AND hot cocoa in your Polar Express cup for dinner! |
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