Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I don't have new pictures right now, but wanted to give an update on Madison. She has been coughing a lot during the night for the last 7-10 days. I took her to the Dr. last Monday and they said it was just a small cold that she should get over within 5 days. The coughing got worse over the weekend so I took her back to the Dr. yesterday. What started as a cold has triggered her asthmatic condition and her Pulse-ox numbers weren't quite where they should be. So we're giving her an oral steroid along with the breathing treatment steroid we do daily already. She did better last night & only had one bad coughing fit. I'm giving her one more night for the oral steroid to eliminate the cough...if she still coughs tonight we're going back to the Dr. tomorrow. The next step is to do a chest Xray to make sure she doesn't have pneumonia settling in her lungs. The Dr. doesn't suspect that yet, but the Xray will determine for sure.

She's fine during the day and is her normal happy self - it's just the night cough that is giving her trouble. I'll update tomorrow & try to get some new pictures up this week.

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