Alex has been his usual happy and good-natured self this week. But, it has been a harder than normal week. Early in the week, he was wheezing quite a bit and had to work hard to breathe. His doctor diagnosed him with asthma and has been taking a couple of inhaled medicines (albuterol and pulmicort) through a nebulizer. The medicines helped quite a bit and his breathing is nearly back to normal. He is done with the albuterol Sunday and he will need to keep up with the pulmicort for another few weeks to prevent another asthma attack. The benefit of the inhaled medicines is that side effects are minimal.
He has been a real trooper through this. Each time he takes the medicine, he needs to wear an inhaler mask for about 10 minutes. Most of this week, he had to take 5 doses a day so it was hard to sit still with Dad or Mom holding him down for such a long time. In this picture, Mom and Dad got Alex up out of bed late at night for some medicine. He is trying to sleep through it.
In better news, Alex had a great weekend practicing standing and talking. He added n sounds like "na na na" to his vocabulary. Mom got him a toy he can play with while standing that may be his new favorite toy -- picture below.
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