Thursday, November 4, 2010

Medication

I was fairly confident that Finn had a fever on Monday morning, but the rest of the day he was fine.  I was hoping it was a fluke.  On Tuesday afternoon he started having a fever again, and it's still going.  Add in that he started coughing Tuesday night every time I laid him down, and I'm one tired momma.  Whenever he starts to cough the pulmonologist puts him on an antibiotic.  Also, as of August we've had pulmozyne in our refrigerator to use with his nebulizer when he's coughing and congested.  So, in total, Finn now has 8 daily medications as well as his normal 2 times a day chest therapy!!  I had to make a checklist this morning to keep it all straight.  And admittedly in the middle of the night last night I got it wrong.  Oh well.....it doesn't seem to have hurt him.  Here's his "I'm sick" list of medications:

1.  Creon (with every meal--normal)
2.  Prevacid (once a day in the morning--normal)
3.  Vitamax (2mL once a day--normal)
4.  Salt (1/4 tsp throughout the day)
5.  Tylenol
6.  Ibuprofen (alternating every 2-3 hours with the Tylenol for his fever)
7.  Pulmozyne (once a day through the nebulizer, to be followed by chest therapy)
8.  Bactrum (an antibiotic--4.5 mL twice a day)

Are you confused yet??  I am!

PS.  You should have seen the spellcheck on this.  Let's just say blogger doesn't recognize medication names.

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