How many just turned 2 year olds do their own neb treatment???

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It's been a while since my last post on November 30 when Henry was down for the count w/ RSV or an adenovirus. He's still sick 13 days later. He spent the first 6 days on prednisone, antibiotics, and being nebbed continuously. On day 5 he started having diarrhea. Day 10, he started puking. And by day 11, he was really quite sick. His oxygen saturation was low and he had lost a pound and a half in 11 days. His pediatrician thought he had one more day to turn around. Thankfully, the vomiting stopped and even though the diarrhea continues (8-10 times a day), he's eating, drinking, and running around. His pediatrician now believes it's a "full blown" adenovirus, and said that the diarrhea can continue for up to 14 days. Today is day 9. Hopefully, he's almost done.

Poor Henry has spent so much of his life with his face mask on doing breathing treatments, that he can do the whole thing by himself. We put the medicine in. He presses the "go" button and climbs in the chair, and holds his face mask on until we tell him he's done. Kind of nice and kind of sad at the same time...

Henry was supposed to get a repeat chest xray this week to make sure his pnuemonia (from 8 weeks ago) had cleared, but since he is sick we had to cancel. And, he was supposed to get his second H1N1 vaccine. I've had to cancel that the last 2 weeks in a row.

I think we may go back to isolation.