Thursday, May 1, 2008

Quick Update...

Well, things are still crazy here. Courtney started to cough last Friday so we did our Ventolin Inhaler (Albuterol) everyr 4 hours. It hadn't gotten better and by Sunday - her stomach began to hurt. So I got her in to Dr. Miller (regular dr.) on Tuesday and everything checked out but we are treating her proactively against walking pneumonia like CJ had with antibiotics and started Prevacid for heartburn (thinking that could be the cause of her stomach issues present and past). She'll take it for 2 months and we'll go from there.

The last 2 nights she has been coughing in her sleep that it has woken her up. I called Dr. Brasfield today and got her in (1pm) - gotta love that!! We have upped her steriod inhaler to the middle level, added Predinsone (2 tablets) every morning for 5 days and keep doing her Albuterol everyr 4 hours for one more week. Hopefully everything changes with this and it'll kick this awful cough. We now go back in 4 weeks and see what our plans will be for the rest of the summer. It's been so bad at school that Mrs. Simpson told me today that she thought for sure Courtney would have coughed up a lung today plus a few classmates told me about how purple she turned while coughing!! I'm so glad we got her in today!!

Other than all that....we still are doing softball and enjoying it. Our official last game is on May 10th but have some tournament games scheduled for later in May and possibly June. Plus we never know about All-Stars!!

That's it for now, I'm off to make sure Courtney is resting after her not-so-much sleeping night - hopefully she'll nap before practice tonight. She has already complained about 'little black lines under her eyes' - LOL!!

2 comments:

The Schou Family Blog said...

sorry to hear about Courtney. I hope she starts feeling better soon. keep us updated.

Grammy said...

I'm sorry to hear about Courtney and glad you were able to get her into the doctors.

We leave Thursday, the 8th for TX to see Misti and Hunter graduate. In between, we will be going to to Albuq.

Take care and keep us updated about the kids and yourselves.

Love and miss you all,
Mom/Grammy