The purpose of this blog is to keep everyone updated on our family and the management of Eve's mitochondrial disease.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Eve's well visit
Eve had her 3 year well-visit on Thursday. I updated Dr. S on the latest with Eve (seeing Dr. K, etc.) and mentioned that the Zantac wasn't totally effective at controlling the reflux - she still has wet sounding burps. He prescribed prevacid and gave us some samples while the insurance companies argue about paying for it. He listened to her chest and she was wheezing pretty good. She's had a cough for over a week now. He ordered a chest xray and thinks she either aspirated food or reflux. He told us to give her albutural (her inhaler) 4x a day. Oh, she weighs 27lbs 5 oz and is 34 1/2 inches tall with a head circum of 19 inches. He asked me what Dr. Krawiecki told us we could expect of the disease progression in the next year. I explained that dr. K said we don't know what to expect. So Dr. S wants to see her in 6 months (rather than 12) and he wants her to have a flu shot. He gave us a prednisone Rx in case the cough gets worse. We did the chest Xray on Friday morning, but I am assuming all is well since I didn't hear anything from the Dr.'s office. She's been in a wicked bad mood all weekend. Very very fussy. Her nose has started running. I'm not sure how much of her crying/whining is due to feeling sick and how much is due to brattiness. As I told Dave, perhaps the sickness is exacerbating the brattiness. Which I guess makes her a sick, exasperating, brat. :) Ug. It's been a stressfull weekend. Can't wait for school tomorrow. Oh, btw, classes start at UGA tomorrow. Can't believe the fall semester is here already.
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