Rain rain go away, health health come back
After Linnea was well for a few days last month, I realised that she's basically been sick most of her life. She's actually quite a happy girl, given the chance. But starting on Saturday, she was back to being miserable and whinging and crying (seemingly) all the time.
On Monday night she woke up coughing and kept Ben and me up for quite a few hours. She's slept better since then but she has a cold again, as well as a very phlegmy cough. She had a 10-day course of Rulide (Roxithromycin) for a cough last month. Then she had her good days, before the cough returned. I started her on Rulide again but after 7 days it didn't seem to be making any difference. I gave up on it after she threw up Tuesday afternoon's dose.
Saw a new GP this afternoon. The appointment was for 3. The doctor was running late, which gave Linnea time for a nap and Solveig a chance to play with the train set in the waiting room. The doctor referred Linnea to have a chest x-ray. We went to the imaging place near home, where we waited about 20 minutes. Solveig was really good - amusing herself by singing and looking at magazines. The report was going to take about 30 minutes (until 5.05) or wouldn't be ready until 5.30, depending on who I asked. We went to Aldi to kill some time, then went back at 5.15. I got the report 10 minutes later.
The doctor had said if the report indicated a problem, eg pneumonia, to go see him again. The line 'A repeat xray is suggested after treatment' was the only bit I understood, but that was enough to send us back to the surgery. I asked Solveig if she wanted to stop to get dinner first but she said she wasn't hungry.
Got back to the doctor's around 5.45. Waited another 20-30 minutes. Now I know that a 'consolidation' in the lung means pneumonia. Linnea was prescribed Erythromycin. The doctor was a bit puzzled that 16-17 days of Rulide wasn't enough to kill what he thinks is Mycoplasma (though what I've just read says Mycoplasma is rare in infants. Who am I supposed to trust? This doctor has worked extensively with children.) But then again, when did Linnea catch it? She saw her paediatrician two Tuesdays ago, and her chest was clear then.
Anyway, even if she has pneumonia, whatever the type, she's not that unwell as she doesn't have a fever and her breathing isn't laboured. She is off her feeds though, so if the antibiotics don't improve that soon, I have to take her back to the doctor.
As a reward for generally behaving herself, Solveig had a very late dinner (7pm) in front of a recording of 'Play School'.
So that was a fun 4 hours, especially when I remembered that I also have a referral for a chest x-ray, which I didn't use after my cough cleared. But it came back, and I could have had mine done at the same time as Linnea and now I'll have to find some other time to go there again.
On Monday night she woke up coughing and kept Ben and me up for quite a few hours. She's slept better since then but she has a cold again, as well as a very phlegmy cough. She had a 10-day course of Rulide (Roxithromycin) for a cough last month. Then she had her good days, before the cough returned. I started her on Rulide again but after 7 days it didn't seem to be making any difference. I gave up on it after she threw up Tuesday afternoon's dose.
Saw a new GP this afternoon. The appointment was for 3. The doctor was running late, which gave Linnea time for a nap and Solveig a chance to play with the train set in the waiting room. The doctor referred Linnea to have a chest x-ray. We went to the imaging place near home, where we waited about 20 minutes. Solveig was really good - amusing herself by singing and looking at magazines. The report was going to take about 30 minutes (until 5.05) or wouldn't be ready until 5.30, depending on who I asked. We went to Aldi to kill some time, then went back at 5.15. I got the report 10 minutes later.
The doctor had said if the report indicated a problem, eg pneumonia, to go see him again. The line 'A repeat xray is suggested after treatment' was the only bit I understood, but that was enough to send us back to the surgery. I asked Solveig if she wanted to stop to get dinner first but she said she wasn't hungry.
Got back to the doctor's around 5.45. Waited another 20-30 minutes. Now I know that a 'consolidation' in the lung means pneumonia. Linnea was prescribed Erythromycin. The doctor was a bit puzzled that 16-17 days of Rulide wasn't enough to kill what he thinks is Mycoplasma (though what I've just read says Mycoplasma is rare in infants. Who am I supposed to trust? This doctor has worked extensively with children.) But then again, when did Linnea catch it? She saw her paediatrician two Tuesdays ago, and her chest was clear then.
Anyway, even if she has pneumonia, whatever the type, she's not that unwell as she doesn't have a fever and her breathing isn't laboured. She is off her feeds though, so if the antibiotics don't improve that soon, I have to take her back to the doctor.
As a reward for generally behaving herself, Solveig had a very late dinner (7pm) in front of a recording of 'Play School'.
So that was a fun 4 hours, especially when I remembered that I also have a referral for a chest x-ray, which I didn't use after my cough cleared. But it came back, and I could have had mine done at the same time as Linnea and now I'll have to find some other time to go there again.