Second man down.....

We have spent the last few days recovering and resting. Grace is still tired and weak from her little ordeal, but mostly fine and it's still had to believe that it all happened.

Xav was a bit out of sorts yesterday morning, just a bit warm and grizzly. He just wanted to lay around and whinge about life in general, getting frustrated at the big things in life like the correct ratio of honey to weetbix for his breakfast - important stuff.

I was starting to think that maybe we were going to have another gastro patient, but nothing really came of it. His voice was getting raspy, and by the end of the day he was speaking with a crackled voice. It sounded cute, and we just figured he was getting a slight cold. Duane had been fighting off one for the last few days, so it wouldn't have surprised me if he did too.

Come night time, Xav started coughing. By 2am, his cough was hard and suffocating and he was gasping for air. Duane got his Ventolin and gave him 2 puffs, but it didn't seem to be relieving him as instantly as it has before. He calmed down after a few minutes and finally went back to sleep. He woke again at around 6am, once again with a horribly suffocating cough. He was distressed and gasping for air, in between coughs his breaths were short and quick and he was wheezing. We tried again with his Ventolin, and once again it wasn't given him instant relief. I called Medcall, and they sent a Dr out who was her within the half hour.

He checked him out and found that he had an upper chest infection and confirmed that the cough was most likely asthma. He gave him a script for redipred, which is a medicine for asthmatics that is supposed to be very effective in clearing up the cough quickly and also a dose of antibiotics to clear the infection. Poor little fella was mostly fine during the day, but tonight
he is back to struggling and wheezing again. He's in out bed tonight, just so we can keep an eye on him.

So, It'll be a double Dr's appointment next week. Grace has to have a follow up with the initial Dr we saw and Xav needs to go to get a management plan for his Asthma.

Geez, whatever happened about natural birth and extended breastfeeding being good for the gut and reducing asthma?

My kids are broken and falling apart!