Asthma Woes

What a week we've had and it is only Wednesday. About 6 weeks ago, we took both boys off their daily asthma maintenance medication, just to see what would happen. Well, what happened is Ben caught a nasty virus, went into respiratory distress, and ended up in the hospital for 24 hours. But, doesn't he look cute?

The picture above was taken the morning of his release, after several rounds of Albuterol and a hefty dose of oral steroids had a chance to kick in. He was feeling much, much better. We checked out around noon on Monday and scheduled our follow-up appointment with our pediatrician at 8am the next morning. Of course, that next morning, Ace was wheezing and struggling to breath, so we brought him with us as well. Our proactive pediatrician wrote oral steroid scripts for both boys and saved us from another trip to the ER. We love her! And our former pediatrician called us from Plano when he heard about our woes and gave me his thoughts on our treatment plan (which confirmed what I already knew: that the buddies are receiving excellent care). We love him as well! It is good to have good people on your side.

This afternoon, everyone is breathing fairly normally and we just have a few more days on the oral steroids. Which is good really, because a mom can only take so many days of juiced up kids. But that's another story...