Another Drs Appointment

For Caleb this time, though. He has had a cough for a couple of weeks now, but the last couple of days it has gotten progressively worse. He was up most of last night coughing and coming into my room telling me his chest and head hurt and his stomach hurt. I have been giving him some prescription cough medicine - but it did not seem to helping. His teacher basically told him not to come back to class without cough drops. I guess his cough was too disruptive!

I let him stay home today. I called the drs office first thing this morning - and took him in! He was very cooperative - I basically was just a chaffeur. He talked to the dr, he answered her questions - I was very impressed!! She listened to his chest. She said his chest sounded better than she expected, but she was not convinced that he was not getting pnemonia. She said she would not rule it completely out without a chest xray, but she did not really want to do an xray. So, since he is also working on getting an ear infection and she would have to give antibiotics anyway - she just gave him an antibiotic that would take care of both. She also gave him an inhaler to help clear it out.

He will be going back to school tomorrow. He has to take the inhaler with him. This is the first time he has had to have medicine at school - EVER!!

He is really growing up and beginning to mature. The last time we saw this particular doctor he really freaked out. It was the first time he went to the dr when we moved up here. He had ALWAYS gone to a male dr - since birth, so he did not like having to undress down to his underwear for a female dr. We have since always tried to get him in to see a male dr. I was concerned going to see her - even though it has been years. What a difference a few years makes!!