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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hello, again

Today, we said hello to our Pleasanton clinic. Friday night, Ben had a low grade fever. It went away by Saturday morning but was soon followed by a dry cough. Well, that cough has gotten worse as of yesterday so we headed on in today for a culture.

Our clinic does not just give out antibiotics. They want to see him, listen to his breathing and do a culture to find out if anything is growing in his little lungs. This is a GOOD thing. Too often I see CFer’s getting handed antibiotic after antibiotic without going into further detail or examination. This is not necessarily good for a couple reasons. One, different bacteria requires different antibiotics. If you don’t know what’s growing in our little CFer’s lungs, how can you properly treat it? Two, I don’t want Ben being filled with unnecessary antibiotics that aren’t treating the problem. Three, I don’t want Ben growing resistant to antibiotics. He’s going to be taking them throughout his life and the last thing we need is for him to build up a resistance to certain ones. Four, you don’t want antibiotics covering up a bigger problem that may be going on. They may treat the symptoms but not the overall problem.

I have a refill on Bactrim for emergency cases such as, we’re out of town or it’s a holiday weekend.Our clinic trusts me enough to know the signs of possibly needing it. However, we haven’t had to use it yet because I like to give Ben a couple days to get over the cough himself.

While being in the car for three hours and missing our Gymboree class is not fun, I am thankful our clinic handles Ben’s care this way. Once again, Ben receives the best care because I refuse to settle for anything less.

Now we just keep our fingers crossed for clean results or results that can be treated with oral antibiotics. I am not letting the dreaded p-word enter my vocabulary just yet.

4 comments:

  1. fingers crossed for a great result. we go in friday to see if we got rid of IT.

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  2. Our fingers are crossed for you too! We just got that dreaded call saying my little peanut grew it again. It's stayed away for 2 years and is now back :( We are bummed - but ready to treat it and make it dissappear. Good luck to you guys!

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  3. Matthew is almost 13 and hasn't cultured the p word yet. I'm still not ready to hear it :)Fingers crossed that he is still free of it.

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  4. Hey hun, keeping everything crossed for a clear culture, hopefully just a little virus that will leave the party swiftly!
    Soph isn't 100% at the moment either, can't decide if it's a viral nasty, a pseudo flare up or the change in treatments. CF is doing my head in right now!

    Hope all clears up soon, take care x x x

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