Poor little guy

Here's what I do when my poor little guy gets sick.  

We let the fever do it's job fighting off the sickness and tried to just keep him cool and comfortable.  Treating his cough is harder. 

He slept and slept and slept all night and most of the morning and when he woke up he was dehydrated and hungry.   I made him some hot brown rice with Chia seeds,apples and strawberries and hemp milk.  He's eaten three bowls and he wants to feed himself but his poor little hand is shaking from weakness.  

Then he gets some of his Nutrivene-D multivitamin in applesauce and then some vitamin D3, probiotics, echinacea and colloidal  silver.   

And of course some Breathe oil and Thieves.  

However, things took a turn for the worse. So we went to the pediatrician's office at 4:30 pm and they sent us to the ER so that they could do a chest x-ray and rule out pneumonia.  5 1/2 hours in the ER and he seemed to perk up after oxygen breathing treatment and then iv fluids. No pneumonia.  Blood work fine.  They sent us home.  After seeing police dragging people in to the ER and a woman screaming we were glad to go. 

He seemed better but the next day right before our follow-up appointment he spiked a pretty high fever again. So back to the hospital and after more studies and more breathing treatments determined that he had RSV.  The coughing continued and he was complaining about it hurting.  Antibiotics were started for a possible sinus infection.  We have stayed here two nights and he is breathing better.  Everyone has been really nice.  

Pedro and I have both taken a day off of work and Lupe has been staying with the grandparents and been picked up from school by friends. The kids miss each other.  

How GRATEFUL I am to have family here.  

Lupe's first grade class made pictures for Liam and sent him some toy cars to play with.  How amazing! Liam is loved in first grade.  

So sometimes hospitals and medicine are absolutely the best route. We have been struggling for so long with his on again off again congestionand raspy breathing.  It's been his only real health concern (And with Down syndrome there could have been a lot more problems)    We have tried diet changes and other things.   So when asthma was mentioned and the idea of flushing out his sinuses a lot more often and using an inhaler when we hear the wheeze, well, if this helps his overall respiratory health then we are grateful for some solutions.  But something is triggering this and that is what I'd like to find out.  

Parenting is damn hard work.  

He's better.