There's always a fine line...

When you have a kiddo with chronic lung disease who also seems to be a medical mystery, coupled with "typical" kid stuff (read: teething. It's a bear), you have to balance, well, life. You see, Wyatt doesn't always present with normal indicators of illness. He's had pneumonia twice and never spiked a fever. He's also turned blue for no apparent reason. So, I often have to rely on my mom gut and the medical professionals to help sort things out for us because there's a fine line between things are cool and things are not cool. That fine line could be an emergency really quickly and we have to be on top of things in case it gets bad. 

This morning he sounded a little coarse. Which means things are junky when he breathes. It sort of makes sense because his nose is a darn faucet these days because of teeth and maybe a cold, or allergies, or any combination of things. So I trusted my mom gut and got him in to be seen at the pediatricians office. 

The verdict is, we will wait and see. His lungs sound clear but his upper airway sounds terrible, likely from the stuffy nose. Right now we can't really treat anything unless we toss in an antibiotic, except if it's viral, that antibiotic won't do anything and if it does develop into pneumonia, he will need another course of antibiotics and a steroid. So... the real verdict is, this mama needs to go to med school so I can differentiate between upper airway and lungs. Or at least take an anatomy class? In my spare time, of course. 

Here's our favorite blonde, hanging out, being cute. 

 

Oh and, those teeth? They can go bite themselves because teething sucks. Just ask Wyatt.