sick
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Coughing fits, and a clinic visit
Yesterday was a pretty fun day. Jessica, Namine, and I went over to my mom’s house for lunch. My dad went out and got a sled for Namine, and he ran around the front yard with a bundled Namine in tow. (I would have loved to do the towing, but I was stricken with a…
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Emergency appointment
Namine’s cough has been pretty nonexistent lately; during the night, at least, we haven’t heard her cough at all lately.
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Taking a deep breath
Of all the things that we fear above all else, as parents of a post-trach child, is respiratory illness.
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Persistent ear infection
I would love to be able to write “the ear infection is gone.” Alas, it is not to be. Jessica and my mom took Namine in to the ENT clinic this morning, where they found that Namine’s ear infection is still there. Smaller, but still there. That means, among other things, that we cannot yet…
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A trip to the ENT clinic
We took Namine in to be seen by ENT today. The culture from her ear infection had turned out to be fungal, not bacterial, so the bacterial eardrops we had given her (that finished about ten days ago) did no good. Actually, the eardrops may have exacerbated things, and possibly sped up the rate of…
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Ear infection, again (or still?)
Yesterday we took Namine in to see the doctor. We’ve been giving her ear drops prescribed for her ear infection (just a day or two left in the original prescription, now), and we thought that the infection was all but gone. We certainly hadn’t seen any drainage or any other evidence of an active infection,…
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Slight ear infection
My mom took Namine to the Urgent Care this morning, and I accompanied them, in case they needed to suction out her ears.
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Kitties are great motivators
A lot has happened since I last posted – some of it good, and some of it bad – and I apologize for the lapse.
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Coming down with something
Namine was coughing quite a bit after she woke up, so we took her to the doctor this morning. Two nights ago, she was coughing a bit before she fell into a deeper sleep. Last night, however, she didn’t cough at all. I had hoped that whatever had been giving her the sniffles had passed.…
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Coming home tonight
Namine is being discharged from the hospital this evening. Much has happened since the last post, not the least of which is the foot surgery schedule change.
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Stoma care: using Mepilex instead of gauze
The question of keeping Namine’s tracheostomy stoma covered was raised in my mind. Since decannulation, we’ve kept it covered with gauze. It seems like she’s coughing when she has the gauze on, but when we take it off, she doesn’t cough as much or at all. So I called the ENT department at Children’s Hospital…
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Sickness and surgery
Last night Namine didn’t need any oxygen. It seems like with this cough and ear infection, she’s been kind of on-again-off-again needing the oxygen. But I put the pulseox on her after she was asleep, and she was satting at 88. I admit I was a little worried, because during her nap, she was dipping…