Yesterday

Yesterday was a busy, stressful, hard day. It started with an appointment with an allergy/asthma specialist for Jacob. Many of you remember how sick he was during the fall. Our pediatrician felt certain it was allergy related (and so did I), so he wanted us to get him checked before the spring. One thing was certain. We did not want a repeat of the fall.

I was prepared for almost anything allergy related. I felt certain that he would have to go on a seasonal allergy med. I was even somewhat prepared for them pricking his back for the testing (even though..who can really be prepared to see their baby being pricked 18 times in the back while you're having to hold him down??!). What I wasn't prepared for was for his issues to not be allergy related. He didn't have a single allergen come back positive. So, his diagnosis? Restrictive Airways (aka "baby asthma"). This has been so hard for me to grasp. His Oxygen was 100%, and honestly they didn't do much breathing testing. He just looked at the records on how we had to go to the ER for wheezing, his O2 sat being low then, and almost every time he's been sick since, he's wheezed. The time we went to the ER, he had bronchiolitis, which was caused by RSV. The doc explained to me that little ones' lungs have a hard time recovering from RSV, and this is pretty common. Our hope is that he will grow out of this over the next year or two, and never have to be labeled with "asthma". I had it as a child, and my prayer is that my sweet baby boy won't have to go through what I did! They sent us home with a nebulizer, and we have to give him a breathing treatment every night for the next 5 weeks, and then we go back and see him. He's hoping by doing this it will help us go the rest of the winter without getting sick. The only good thing about all of this is that it should help prevent ear infections too!!

On with my day... I had to quit my job. Jacob and I have been going to a parents day out program at a local church two days a week since he was 6 months old. We have both enjoyed it so much! I always had a blast watching him run around the gym with all those lil ones. And I loved my 4 year old class. I got to know several people that otherwise I probably would have never met. I'm grateful for that. Unfortunately, I haven't been too happy about some things going on with my lil man. I won't go into details, but Wayne and I both felt it best for us to come back home. I cried. It's going to be hard getting into a new routine. Even though it was just two days a week for 5 hours, that was two days that got us out of the house. So, local friends....Be ware. We will be calling. We both will get cabin fever if we are in this house every single day! So, now I have to get creative and think of different things for us to do. I'm about to start promoting my photography big time to make up the little bit of slack that we are missing now. Please, please pass my name around! We would greatly appreciate it! :)

Many other events happened yesterday, but these were the two that overwhelmed me. And then to end the day...holding down this sweet little boy with tears flowing out of his eyes was so hard! And to think, we have to do this every night! Please be in prayer for him as he gets use to this. And please pray that this is just temporary!

Happier post...with pics coming soon! Thanks for lending me your ear...er....eye!