Tyler got sick again this past Wednesday. He woke up with a nasty sounding yet infrequent cough. He came home and had ABA therapy where he developed a fever.
By 7pm that evening Tyler felt awful and was sporting a 103 fever. Tylenol did not take it down and finally by about 1am, I added motrin and a shower which brought it down to 102 and he was able to sleep. He continued to be sick Thursday and missed school. Same story Friday.
Friday morning I took him into the doctors during walk hours for a school note. They weighed and measured him. He is 43lbs and 47.75 inches. His BMI has dropped down to underweight. I knew he had lost weight over the past month or so as I had noted that he was starting to look rather skinny. The doctor wants him to go in for a weight check on Wednesday and wrote a note for the school stating he HAS to have 30 minutes for lunch to get in the calories and nutrients he needs (he only gets 15 minutes and never has enough time to finish).
Tyler continued to be sick Saturday but his fever let up. His cough got really nasty and I worried we'd not make it through the weekend. I bought a plug in vaporizer and it helped SO much.
Today there is no school for MLK observance. But Tyler is doing much better. He wakes up super stuffy and junky and has a fit over all the junk in his nose. After about 2 hours he's better. His cough is still present but not nearly as frequent (he was coughing about every minute or less on Saturday and it had a bark to it). Hopefully he keeps going in this direction.
I haven't uploaded Christmas photos yet. I haven't even put them onto my computer. I really need to get on top of that! At this rate it will be summer by the time you get to see them!
-Tylers Mommy
"You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same."
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