On the road to recovery

I hope it is safe to say that my kids are on the road to recovery health wise at this point. Last week Audrey woke up in the night and literally was screaming all night long, so we took her into the dr. and she had a double ear infection and still had her croupy cough and fever at that time, last Wednesday. The Dr. put her on antibiotics and she is done with those now and seems to be doing a ton better. Well in the meantime, Adam started developing the same symptoms she had with a cough and a fever and seemed very irritable. On Saturday of last week we took him to the dr. office to get checked out because his cough had worsened and was a very wet cough and he seemed like he was having difficulty breathing at sometimes. We just wanted to make sure he did not have RSV. We discovered that he had Brochiolitis. Bronchiolitis is swelling and mucus buildup in the smallest air passages in the lungs (bronchioles), usually due to a viral infection. The Dr. started Adam on Nebulizer treatments and we put a little mask on the little guy about every 4-6 hours and give him albuterol to help the inflammation in his chest. The poor little guy is miserable! At this point we do not want to go anywhere else for the rest of the winter. He will be on these treatments at least for the next week and until his cough clears up and when he does not wheeze while breathing. All the things that have happened in the last week could have been worse, so we are grateful that we have been able to keep Adam home and not have him be hospitalized. We have been to the Dr. office so much lately and want to stay away for as long as possible, but Adam does have his six month appointment coming up at the beginning of March and his follow-up appointment with the Ears, Nose and Throat Dr. Anyways, we are on the road to recovery and hope nothing else comes our way, but when it rains, it pours right.