The Cole Family: Ugh, sick again......

Well, Gee is sick ............ again. It was just 6 weeks ago that he had bronchitis and was pretty miserable. Well, about 3 weeks ago he was sick with a cough and fever for 2 or 3 days. He also had the yellow crud coming out of his nose. Well, we just kept him on fever meds and he got better. Well, except for the cough. It got a little better but here in the last few days it has gotten much worse. Even in the last 24 hours has gotten increasingly bad. So, we took him to the Dr. today and he's kind of a mess. His lungs are 'wet" and his lymphnodes are swollen. He has a fever again (102.6) and his nose is a little bit yucky again. His cough is completely awful. He is coughing so hard on a regular basis that he is gaging. He has literally coughed all day today. So, that Dr. prescribed him an antibiotic, a cough syrup and some asthma meds (along with a nebulizer). He also ordered an xray (we should get those results tomorrow). And btw, Gee had gained zero weight on the Dr.'s scales since he was there 6 weeks ago.

I am just sad that Gideon seems to spend so much time sick. I tell you what though, he is a trooper. For as sensitive as he can be when he is well you'd almost expect him to be high maintenance when he's sick. He is not at all. He still smiles and acts sweet even when he's hacking like crazy.

We are no closer to finding what Gideon's long term issues might be than what we were in my last post. He has another appt. at Columbus children's with his GI guy in June (the first available they had). Actually, he has an appointment sooner than that (May 12th) with the pediatric urologist. It is time for Gee to get circumcised and since he is older it will be an outpatient surgery.

Everything else is going well. I finally got the girl's room's switched around and the little girls are doing pretty good in their new beds. It has been a little tough, but I think they are finally starting to get the hang of sleeping in their beds and not playing in their room (maybe). They love their new big girl beds and special blankies though. It is really cute to see how excited they are about them. When we first got the room/beds ready I took all 3 little ones upstairs to see. I showed the girls thier beds and they of course hopped right on. Gideon walked in between the beds and turned and looked at me and did his "hands up, shoulder shrug" thing and said "My bed?" It was sooo funny and pathetic I just had to laugh!

Ok, here's some recent pics:

Doesn't he look great in that blue? He has such a beautiful smile!