Monkey Update

Since you all know he went back to the doctor again on Monday I figured I would update on what they found..NOTHING !! They can't figure out what is wrong with him. He defintely has/had an infection, but they aren't sure what. The best way to explain it as she told me is this..

Most kids get colds (We already figured that was how he got the first ear infection, from Keira's school) and most kids can shake the cold by themselves 2-3 days. There is something in his system that won't let him shake it. We found it was the ears holding the infection behind the drum, which is why we put the tubes in. Well now the ears are draining, but he is still holding an infection. He does have allergies and since they are so bad right now, that's not helping the situation any, but that's not the only thing. She put him on the inhaler again, a steroid inhaler, and a nasal spray to help open up the passages. He is very congested and coughing a lot. If there is not a significant change by Friday then I am to call her and she will write the referral to the ENT (AGAIN) and an allergist..

I asked her why an allergist? Allergies don't give you fever and diarhhea..she said no, but there is something more going on that just that..something in the sinus cavaties (what little ones he has)..The ENT is for the adenoids..They were not infected when he had his tubes out, but.....They could be now..This is my theory...He kept getting infections that wouldn't drain out his ears and now that they do drain they are draining into the adenoids..Since the adenoids are responsible to filtering infections, if they are infected he can't shake the infections...so normally I think the first course of action is antibiotics, but since he has already 9 courses in the last 8 months..(the last one was the strongest he could take at home for 14 days..Two days later he was sick again) I don't see them working very well..I am betting that the adenoids are gonna have to come out now...But who knows..we are in a holding pattern right now..he's miserable, cranky and very mad at the world...he feels horrible, and he doesn't understand why...He does have the last 4 teeth coming in (the bottom two have broken all the way through, the top two are breaking through now) so that adds to it..As of this morning he finally ate something (half a toaster strudel) and his temperature is hovering around 100