Take 4

Oh, and earlier in the day I spent the morning at the pediatrician's trying to solve little C's month cough. 

 The week before I left for Barcelona little C got RSV that rocked his little lungs.  With some pretty intense and consistent meds we were able to keep him out of the Hospital, but it was scary for a bit as we tried to get his wheezing and respiratory rate under control.  After we returned from Barcelona his cough was gone, but we were diligent and finished off an additional 2 weeks of pulmicort, which we finished on a Sunday.  The next Monday and Tuesday were record setting pollen days and little C was back to wheezing.  After a few doses of albuterol and one of pulmicort we got that under control.  But, he's had this lingering cough and has been waking up once or twice at night.  Well, this past week on vacation we were separated by a door instead of a hallway and two doors and we discovered that the poor little guy is coughing all night long.  No wonder he's been more and more maniacal.  The poor kid has been getting no uninterrupted sleep!  So...

For the next 3 months Mr. Fishy is our friend

That's right, 3 months. 

 Right now he gets two doses of pulmicort daily and then albuterol every 4 hours.  The good news is that when his cough lessens we can stretch the albuterol to 6, then 8, then 12, then discontinue.  The bad news is that he's on the pulmicort until we get back from Europe in July.  The worse news is that it's looking more like asthma.  The better news is that as long as Elmo or SuperWhy is on little C thinks his fishy-face is totally AWESOME!

Let's just hope that 4 is enough and we don't have to go the way of Brubeck and Take 5.