Home at last, feeling mostly better.

[marydell]

We are home from the hospital - Charlie's breathing pretty well, and has been diagnosed with Atopic dermatitis (eczema) and Reactive Airway disease (what they call athsma-type illness in a baby too young to be diagnosed with athsma).  He does not have to be on maintenance meds for the athsma-thing just yet, though--it may just flare up when he has a cold.  We'll get the results of his allergy bloodwork in a couple of days, although in a baby this young it's often not accurate.  We have 8 prescriptions getting filled right now, for various creams and drugs and stuff, and we are all going to take a nap now.  (Mike and I both have colds ourselves, ugh) Thank you all so much for the good wishes.

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[gailmom.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear all three of you are home again. When you are sick, home feels better than anywhere else, imo.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

True. Although it actually felt good to be in the hospital surrounded by interested doctors after a month of struggling with itchy rash flareups armed with nothing stronger than hydrocortisone, and hearing that the only dermatologist around who treats infants can see him "in March." My poor baby was having to sleep swaddled and with his hand in a sock to keep him from bloodying his face. So it was really a relief to hear a nurse say "he's still having some breathing trouble and we need to find out what's going on with this rash, so we're going to admit him."

However, sleeping in my own bed instead of on a cot in the hospital is verrry nice, even though I'll be getting up a lot to dose the little guy.

I am totally impressed by anyone who does this with more than one child or with fewer than two parents! (I grew up with 6 siblings and 3 parents, but since I'm the youngest the oldest sibs were like additional parents) Mike and I were really lucky to be able to tag-team on stuff with just one kid between the two of us.