Another stressful day in Austria today!! Knowing that Jason was sick, we knew we wouldn’t be doing any therapy or play picnic today but we had a meeting with the Professor. Professor Dunitz is back, the big chief!!
We first met with Professor Sheer, who is Professor Dunitz’s husband and he examined Jason, listened to his chest. Bruce was at the pharmacy while I was with Jason. Anyway he sent Jason and myself down for a chest x-ray and blood test. While I was waiting for the x-ray results Bruce came back and said that Professor Sheer said that he thinks Jason has bronchitis!!
So once we had all the tests done we went back upstairs for the verdict. The verdict was that looking at the x-ray, Professor Sheer thinks he has bronchitis but Professor Dunitz doesn’t. The blood test showed that his hydration has come up and the CRP levels aren’t as bad as last week when he had the sinus/throat infection so no need for an antibiotic. But they sent us downstairs to the pulmonologist for training to give Jason his new medicine. Having a mouth full of chips she had to demonstrate on the toy kitty! Jason found this rather funny not knowing that this was actually for him. They have given two pumps, one called Sultanol which we give 4 x a day, 2 sprays via an air chamber to the nose and the mouth and one called Flixotide which we give 2 x a day, 1 spray via the via the air chamber to the nose and mouth.
After hearing about this infection, we were obviously SHATTERED. This is Jason’s 3rd infection in 3 weeks. 1st Rotavirus where we were in isolation for a week and a half, 2nd the sinus/throat/ear infection where we couldn’t join in for half a week and now this one!
We obviously didn’t know what to do. Now our air tickets were changed and we were not going home tomorrow and we had a sick child. We had different opinions to tackle with, on one hand do we go home and leave now before the infection gets worse, he can’t continue with therapy and play picnic and join in with the other families so what’s the point of staying? On the other hand, Jason is sick but he could get better, we have a week to go, do we hold out and stay hoping that he gets better and we are able to continue – hopefully and also gain the knowledge and experience of one last week? I also wanted to speak to Professor Dunitz and also Professor Hauer (the gastroenterologist) before we leave. We also have a lot of unfinished business here and things that need to be finalised and wound up. So should we stay or should we go??
Well the airline decided that for us anyway, they had no available seats in economy class, they could put us on a flight tomorrow but in order to get home we would have to pay R21,000.00. So staying was the final answer!
We did have some funny times today. This morning before we left the B&B we normally feed the Lama’s, the buggers can eat a whole loaf of bread and come running when they hear the pram. They know us by now! So Jason had great fun feeding the Lamas and on the way down the two goats came running up to us “maaing and maaing”, they are privately owned, not owned by the B&B. We felt sorry for them and gave them some bread as well. On our climb back up the hill on the way home, not a peep from the goats like we normally have and there on the fence are signs everywhere in German obviously but we clearly knew what they said “feeding forbidden” and no goats in sight!! OOPS did we kill the goats??????
We first met with Professor Sheer, who is Professor Dunitz’s husband and he examined Jason, listened to his chest. Bruce was at the pharmacy while I was with Jason. Anyway he sent Jason and myself down for a chest x-ray and blood test. While I was waiting for the x-ray results Bruce came back and said that Professor Sheer said that he thinks Jason has bronchitis!!
So once we had all the tests done we went back upstairs for the verdict. The verdict was that looking at the x-ray, Professor Sheer thinks he has bronchitis but Professor Dunitz doesn’t. The blood test showed that his hydration has come up and the CRP levels aren’t as bad as last week when he had the sinus/throat infection so no need for an antibiotic. But they sent us downstairs to the pulmonologist for training to give Jason his new medicine. Having a mouth full of chips she had to demonstrate on the toy kitty! Jason found this rather funny not knowing that this was actually for him. They have given two pumps, one called Sultanol which we give 4 x a day, 2 sprays via an air chamber to the nose and the mouth and one called Flixotide which we give 2 x a day, 1 spray via the via the air chamber to the nose and mouth.
After hearing about this infection, we were obviously SHATTERED. This is Jason’s 3rd infection in 3 weeks. 1st Rotavirus where we were in isolation for a week and a half, 2nd the sinus/throat/ear infection where we couldn’t join in for half a week and now this one!
We obviously didn’t know what to do. Now our air tickets were changed and we were not going home tomorrow and we had a sick child. We had different opinions to tackle with, on one hand do we go home and leave now before the infection gets worse, he can’t continue with therapy and play picnic and join in with the other families so what’s the point of staying? On the other hand, Jason is sick but he could get better, we have a week to go, do we hold out and stay hoping that he gets better and we are able to continue – hopefully and also gain the knowledge and experience of one last week? I also wanted to speak to Professor Dunitz and also Professor Hauer (the gastroenterologist) before we leave. We also have a lot of unfinished business here and things that need to be finalised and wound up. So should we stay or should we go??
Well the airline decided that for us anyway, they had no available seats in economy class, they could put us on a flight tomorrow but in order to get home we would have to pay R21,000.00. So staying was the final answer!
We did have some funny times today. This morning before we left the B&B we normally feed the Lama’s, the buggers can eat a whole loaf of bread and come running when they hear the pram. They know us by now! So Jason had great fun feeding the Lamas and on the way down the two goats came running up to us “maaing and maaing”, they are privately owned, not owned by the B&B. We felt sorry for them and gave them some bread as well. On our climb back up the hill on the way home, not a peep from the goats like we normally have and there on the fence are signs everywhere in German obviously but we clearly knew what they said “feeding forbidden” and no goats in sight!! OOPS did we kill the goats??????