Poor Logan

This kid has been through so much! It all started back in mid August with a cold that hasn't gone away. We took him to the doctor about 2 weeks ago where he was diagnosed with bad ear infections in both ears. He was given amoxicillin to take. Well, as it turns out, he is allergic to it. This was something I didn't pick up on until I took him back to the doctor a week later (this past Monday) because he still didn't seem any better. Well the doctor saw the hives (which I thought were bug bites) and checked out his ears and they weren't any better. So he was put on a different antibiotic. The next day he broke out into a horrible rash that covered his entire body. I of course panicked and took him back to the doctor who told me it wasn't a reaction to the medicine, but was the roseola rash!

The picture doesn't do it justice. The rash was really bad and lasted for a couple of days. Just when I thought he could only get better, the cough he has had for about a month seemed to be getting worse. So I made another call to the doctor who had me bring him in again for the third time this week! After another evaluation, the doctor said that his ear infections were starting to clear up, but that he had a sinus infection and his airways were inflamed. So he was given yet another antibiotic and a steroid to clear things up (hopefully). We were told that if he wasn't any better in two weeks to bring him back in and he would have to have an X-ray done to make sure it hasn't turned into something serious like pneumonia.

I'm really hoping that this round of medication clears things up for Logan. It's been just too long that he's been going through this. However, he's been pretty good through it all. Some days are worse than others, but for the most part, he's been acting like himself (which is why we waited so long to take him to the doctor in the first place).