Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Asthma... no, that would be too easy!

This has not been a good couple of weeks for the McGuire's.

Natalie has been coughing since she had her tonsils out in Sept. so after Christmas we took her to the doctor. She put her on yet another round of antibotics. They did not work. We went back and were told that she thought it was asthma. I asked for a chest x-ray and found that she had pnemonia. Took her to the pulmonologist and he said that she did not have asthma and sent her for blood work as well as a CAT scan. In addition to this testing her ped reccomended that we test her for cystic fibrosis. Good news... no cystic fibrosis. Bad news, we still do not know what is wrong. She was on a different antibotic that she took through her machine and had to do 3 times a day. She was fine while on it but less than 24 hours after she is right back were we started.

Joe and I are wanting more than anything to have our baby girl healthy so if you have any extra prayers please send them our way.

We go back to the ped, the pulmonologist and the ENT in the next week or so. I will update as soon as we know mroe.

Pictures to come before then though... she is just getting so big!

Take care!