Asthma...

For a while, we have thought that Joey was going to be an "allergy" kid. He showed many signs during his short life, but the big sign for us was how he literally coughed from September until December last fall. And of course, the minute that the weather took a turn for the better here, the cough returned. With some help from our favortie Nurse Practioner (Anna "Roof"), I took Joey to see the allergist in our practice today. The good news is that he does not have any definative allergies. The bad news is that he does have sensitive or restricted airways that get inflamed when he gets sick and cause such a lingering cough. Some Dr.'s do classify it as asthma and some, because it is a type of asthma that should go away on its own by the time he turns 6, won't actually call it asthma. None the less, it so very encouraging to find out all of these things today and know that there is a course of treatment (flo-vent inhaler 2x/day) to keep my baby from coughing his head off when he gets sick.