Della's Pulmonologist appointment!

We spend the morning with Della at a Pediatric Pulmonologist appointment! First of all, the Doctor was awesome!!!! He confirmed what I have known for a while and that is, no child should be this sick. First of all, he thinks she has Asthma. There is really no way to diagnose it except the past. With the 2 acute asthma attacks, pneumonia twice, sinus infection and chronic cough so hard you throw up, he thinks asthma is an underlying problem. Will she grow out if it? There is a 50/50 chance. If she does start to grow out of it he said now would be the time it starts to fade. We will have to see.

Part number two, even with Asthma there is no reason a child should be sick for over two months straight(same symptoms.) Even people with Asthma have normal 3-4 day colds. He said whenever a cough wakes a child at night and she can't just roll over, she throws up etc. that is not normal. He thinks she may have had the same sinus infection since right after Christmas. Yes she has been on antibiotics since then, but I guess with a sinus infection it takes a 20 day round of something like Augmentin. She was on Amoxicillin 10 days for the sinus infection and Omnicef 10 days for the pneumonia. She is now on Augmentin for 20 days and if that does not solve the problem we look at her lungs and allergies.

We are relieved that we saw him, waited a long time to get in, but worth the wait!!!!! We now see him for all of Della's respiratory issues! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers for her, we are on the right path now!