What Happened?

First of all, dear readers, I am so sorry to have left you in the lurch for so long. I'm sure many of you have been checking back often, looking for a new post - wondering, 'what has become of the goddess?'....'where is the goddess I need an update'. Well, readers, let me tell you that it is has not been easy for the goddess in the past two weeks.

Deep breath......

The goddess was.......wrong! Yes, please do not allow this earth shattering admission to throw any of you for a loop. I understand that many of you come to me for guidance, for laughs, for what have you, and to hear that the goddess was wrong, just might drive some of you over the edge. Let me explain.

Little Mookie has been coughing, which I noted in a previous post. Took him to the doctor, as a good mother would do, and the doctor listened to my explanation, listened to Mookie's chest, proclaimed it clear, then prescribed Xoponex, which the goddess refused to give her little Mookie, seeing as there were no real tests given.

Well, little Mookie started coughing one night and just could not stop, even with steam and everything else. Mookie went to the ER!!! He had to be nebulized and came back with albuterol in pump, diagnosed with an astham attack! What? My little Mookie, who has always been healthy and never shown signs of any type of respiratory distress, ASTHMA? How did the goddess fail??

Don't fear, there's more. Poor little Mookie was stable, but didn't find true relief, even with the albuterol. Back to the drs later that day. Well, well, the doctoer (not the same one from before) diagnosed the croup, the coughing from with irritated little Mookie's bronchial tubes, which in turn caused them to "seize up" so to speak, thus causing the tightness. What happened? The goddess had to stand by while her little Mookie was nebulized FOUR TIMES until his oxygen level was sufficiently high enough to be released home. We were in the drs office three hours and came home with a nebululizer, Pulimcort, Xoponex and Prednisolone. (Yes, now I'm a pharmicist, one of many hats that I wear). Yes, the goddess was against the drugs before, but with a competent diagnosis, a thorough examination by the doctor, a thorough explantion by the nurse practitioner and phone support by the drs, the goddess was willing to administer....well, let's just say we're lucky cocaine wasn't the end cure for Mookie for the goddess would have been trying to 'score'.

Now, a week after the crisis, Mookie has a wonderfully loose cough, mucous is plentiful and the tight continous cough is no more! Mookie is being weaned off his steriod regimin ans is still doing well. He is running, jumping and yelling with no ill effects....and no coughing.

So there's your fix, dear readers, rest assured the goddess is back and will have more tales to tell in the future.