Through all of the planning and preparing for our trip, we never prepared for the possibility that we wouldn't be able to go. When we found out on Friday that John had strep throat, we thought we had plenty of time to get him well. When he got it last time, he was well fairly quickly. But now we are 2 days before Tommy and my Dad are scheduled to leave, and he isn't much better
We spent part of the night Monday in the ER with John. He has a terrible cough and when he gets started, he just can't stop. He also was having some issues with his oxygen levels being low. He was taking rapid, shallow breaths and we had to turn the oxygen higher than normal, just to get his saturations to acceptable levels. So we decided to take him to the ER. They did a chest x-ray (which was thankfully clear) and they gave him a breathing treatment along with a prescription for breathing treatments at home and a steroid. We got home a little before 3am.
Yesterday wasn't much better. He is still coughing and then when he finally stops, he is so worn out that he just goes to sleep. He is sleeping a lot the last few days. We think that his throat is inflammed because coughing is usually followed by crying.
We finally got in touch with his pulmonologist today. She told us to continue the breathing treatments every 4 hours and to double the steroid dose. The steroid is supposed to work quickly and should decrease the inflammation. She expects to see a quick turn around with it.
So now we have to make a decision. Should we take him to Colorado and risk having to spend time in an ER there, or should we just keep him home so he could fully recover? Of course we would rather him stay home and get completely well, but we were so excited for this trip. If we take him and he's still not well, we would be stuck indoors most of the trip and that wouldn't be any fun for him or for us.
We are going to wait until tomorrow to make the decision. Tommy has already contacted the airline to see what can be done with the tickets. If John isn't any better by tomorrow, we will probably be staying home. We will be very sad if we have to stay home. This possibility never crossed my mind.
Please pray for John, that the medicine does what it's supposed to do and he begins to feel better very quickly.
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Praying for JT and you and Tommy. This same thing happened to us once, although it was a surprise trip that Rob had planned for my 30th birthday on my actual birthday. He gave it to me the night before we were leaving and driving with the kids (Trey and a 6 week old Kendra) to New Orleans. That night Kendra ran a fever and I made an appointment that we would take her to as we were leaving town, because I had never thought we wouldn't be going. Well, when we went to the Dr, with the car completely packed and ready to head out of town, our Dr informed us that we would be going straight to Texas Children's and we could expect to be there a week!! We were so shocked. I can totally understand your disappointment. Hang in there! Parenting is not for the faint of heart!
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