Update from January's joint clinic...

Well.... Bad news, my weight has dropped slightly still I'm now 15.6kg but docs really don't seem to fussed about that. My cough however is still here and not very nice. They have decided to put me on yet another antibiotic for 1 month called Septrin. Docs have said I need to make a significant improvement within 2 weeks or I may need a bronchoscopy. This is where they put me into a deep sleep and put a camera into my lungys to see exactly what's going on and maybe give them a little clean. Depending on the outcome of that depends on the next step.

So a week and a half into the Septrin and mumsie says my cough is drying up and even I can tell I'm definitely not coughing as much. So she tells the doc that it's all going in the right direction. YAY :) However, by the week after I'm coughing bad again. Really bad. I'm coughing up green gunk which is yucky and it's even making me cough in my sleep.

So today is Thursday 23rd Jan and tomorrow we are going to centre parcs for the weekend. Today mum has spoken with the consultant at whipps and she is thinking I will need to go in for IVs again :( this really upset mummy as it makes everything all seem real again. Reality kicks in. 

BUT, they are letting me go away for the weekend and see how I am when I get back and decide what to do then. Hopefully they will do the bronch first and actually see what's going on before taking me in for the IVs. 

Fingers crossed all the running around, fresh air and exercise will pay off and help shift this cough...

Roll on centre parcs :)

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