Lance and I both took Monday 12/16/13 off to take Toby to visit with Dr. Jalou at Riley/IU North. Our appointment was at 1pm, so we drove up a little early and had lunch before the appointment. We met with the doctor and spent a good while talking about Toby's 5 month history.
After the evaluation and discussion, his diagnosis was chronic
congestion. Based on evidence after the fact, the pneumonia that he had a
month ago was viral based. The viral based pneumonia is causing a viral
type of asthma. The chest xrays look worse than before because they
believe that is his body working to rid him of the original pneumonia.
However, he has developed a new cough after being wease free/rasp free/cough
free for a couple weeks. So he is back on nebulizer treatments.
We developed a plan if he is not
better from this cough in 10 days. We developed a plan if he ends up with
more respiratory congestion again this winter. We have a lengthy plan of
attack if they chest xrays still look bad in March. At this point, they
have ruled out major health concerns and genetic issues, so we are playing a
waiting game...wait to see if Toby gets sick again and what his ailments are
for next round.
Overall, we are relieved that several
genetic ailments have been ruled out. Time will tell how aggressive we
will have to get with his medical treatment in the future.
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