March 30, 2009

Bronchitis Alert

Last week Karly came down with the same symptoms as Ger. It began with sore throats, feeling exhausted, achiness, and then the horrible cough begins, and stays for weeks. Ger has been on 2 sets of antibiotics and is going back to the doctor today again. Karly, will be joining him as well as hers seems to be taking a bad turn. The evenings, nights and early mornings seem to be the worst for their coughs.

As you can imagine we are very concerned about Sam catching this. The last blood work Sam had done revealed that his ANC (immunity) counts were still quite low, and not where they should be yet, making him more vulnerable than the rest of us. We are doing what we can at home to keep him protected, but we can't control everything. We are praying that Ger and Karly will heal soon and that Sam will be protected from catching this "bug." It has been amazing that Sam has been spared from infections and lengthy hospital stays for the past 10 months and we would love to keep that perfect record.

The past week the temperatures have been warmer, the snow has been melting, and we have chipped off all the ice on the drive way. Sam has been out playing basketball on his own, with his dad, friends and the little neighborhood kids. Today, however looks very much like winter with huge flakes falling fast and furious. Hopefully the temperature will quickly rise and turn it to rain instead. We want spring to come AND STAY! I was hoping to get the bikes down from the garage racks today...I don't think so.

Have a great day,
Debbie