A great hospital visit................

So I decided to take option 2 (see today's earlier post for an explanation) and head to the rural hospital.

The hospital we normally go to for the Pediatric ER is in the major city (population 200,000) in our area and is only around 5 years old. So heading to a much smaller and older hospital in a small town. When we got there my preconception of the small rural hospital changed when much to the boys' delight we saw a rescue helicopter on a helipad and I realised that the hospital was also a major trauma centre!

Now I had been praying that we would meet a sympathetic doctor who understands about asthma. On arriving in the general ER within 2 minutes we were taken in to see a Pediatrician.
Now the doctor turned out to only work there 1 day a week and he was a Pediatrician specialised in allergies and asthma!!!!! Prayers were answered.

We spent a long time talking about Luca's treatment plan and the management of asthma and he diagnosed him with a throat infection, double ear infection and bronchitis, signed him off from school for2 more days and sent us home with the necessary medicines and signs to watch for in case the infection turns to pneumonia.

We also spoke about attempting to desensitise his pollen allergies in the autumn. We have asked several doctors about this before but were told it would not be worth if for Luca as his pollen allergies are classed as Level +6 the normal maximum level being 6. A reading of +6 means that
his blood test results exceeded the programmed parameters on the computer reading his blood.
However he was of the opinion that it can't make things worse so is worth a try. We will definitely be looking into it and making a decision about that this summer.

So tonight I feel much happier. Luca despite being full of bugs he seems OK and hopefully will now begin to improve.