Updates from the Land of Sickies

HELLO world!!! Sorry we haven't updated in a while. As you read a few weeks ago, Jack was in the hospital with pneumonia. He was getting better, no more coughing and then BAM! Monday he started coughing again. We started the breathing treatments back up and he just couldn't seem to cut it. So, I took off work yesterday and took him to the doctor. DOUBLE EAR INFECTION on top of the coughing and wheezing....but NO FEVER!!!! So, the doc said that since Matt and I know the drill so well, he can stay home and he is back on oral steriods!!!! (much to my dismay.) Breathing treatments every 4 hours, plus the steroid, plue nasal spray, plus singulair and zyrtec....AHHH!!!! Good thing a lot of these come in chewable now, because he is a BIG boy! HA! Anyway, he handles it all pretty well without much fight so I can't complain. He actually asks for breathing treatments which totally breaks my heart!

So on top of all that, ear infection=antibiotic again! We went to teh ear doc 2 weeks ago and he said right ear was bad. We had just finished oral antibiotics and 3 doses of IM injections so he wanted to do a hearing test before we decided on new tubes AGAIN! We did the hearing test last Tuesday and it showed mild hearing loss in the right ear but there was also fluid behind the ear. Ped said he would lean toward new tubes for sure, and we go to ear doc on Wednesday and that will probably be the verdict. I am not opposed to it at all, since the ears could very well be causing this runny nose, coughing stuff.........or VICE VERSA! We also head to Riley to the pulmonologist on the 20th and we are hoping for some allergy testing as well as maybe some med changes. Matt and I have just been really frustrated lately and would like some possible answers on some triggers for all this "asthma" complications.

So.........that's that!

On more fun stuff, he is developing awesome! He is talking 100 new words a day and he is very into BASKETBALL lately!!! He tells us he is a good "basketball teamer" and he likes to run fast and dribble and catch and shoot the ball for 2 points!!!! LOVE IT!!!

He is also into reading lately and looking for the letter "J" everywhere. We found it on the TV the other day on the rolling credits for Blue's Clues. We also found it on daddy's JEEP. He walked out to the garage one morning, saw the letter J and said, "Mommy, Daddy has a letter J on his Jeep for JACK!". Like Matt put that there just for him!!! He is hysterical!

And one more fun thing....I GOT A TATTOO! Much to my mother and father's dismay but I have really wanted this tattoo for a while. Matt has a very similar one on his upper arm and I love it. These are Jack's very first foot prints, at about 4 days old. I just took our hospital copy of his prints in and ba-da-bing! And let me just tell ya, it really hurts to get a tattoo on your foot!!!!!

Sorry I have no other pictures today. Jack gets to go to a bday party today at the bowling alley so maybe I will have pictures from that. Jack Bowling.....going Bowling! :-) (Yes, I am a dork)

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