Poor Levi. He is such a sweet, happy, silly, strong boy...but when he gets sick, he gets hit hard. After having RSV at only 11 weeks old, and then again the next winter, he seems to be particularly susceptible to getting horrible coughs whenever he gets the littlest cold. It's pretty much like dealing with croup with every single cold...which is always scary. Parker got a random summertime cold last week, and as you would expect, it passed on to Levi next. We suffered through four sleepless nights full of horrifying coughs and blazing fevers until I took him to the doctor on a Monday morning. The doctor ordered an x-ray to make sure that Levi didn't have pneumonia, since he was struggling a bit too much to breathe...although his lungs turned up clear, the doctor diagnosed him with "reactive airway disease," which seems to be a way of saying that he is susceptible to really bad coughs...although he doesn't have "asthma," it is an "asthma-like" reaction. It seems to be something that he will hopefully grow out of as he gets older and stronger, but we are really dreading another winter of cold and flu season and watching Levi struggle so much every time he gets a cold. The doctor prescribed an albuterol inhaler to use whenever he gets sick, which will hopefully open up his airways a bit and help him breathe better.
Levi also happened to get sick right in the middle of our worst summer heatwave yet...bad timing to be running a fever. It gets really hot in our house this time of year, so we laid a blanket out in the shade in the back yard and he just submitted to sleep while we played some games of Scrabble to pass the time. Parker now happily declares that Scrabble is his favorite game--even though he pretty much can't read or spell yet--and has the most insane amount of patience to actually sit through entire games while we play his tiles for him. Seems like he is already a boy after his mom's heart ;)
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