18 month update

Height- 30.9 inches
Weight- 21 lb 15 oz

I know his height and weight are the same from his last appointment at the old doctor's office!  Luckily our new doctor is connected to Neumors(which has done quite a few weight/heights on him in the past year) and according to their growth chart he is doing just fine.    LOL, I never did trust that old doctor anyway.  He is growing out of his pants and runs into the table now so he has clearly grown since his last appointment.  I am guessing as soon as they start measuring him while he is standing we will get a more accurate reading.  The weight is a whole other ball of wax and that is correct, we have to go back in three months for a weight check so hopefully we can put a little on him during that time.

Which brings me to the same exact problem I had at the beginning of winter.  This kid likes to have growth spurts right before seasons change and it is is next to impossible to find lightweight pants for him in the next size up.   All they have out now is shorts, which we already have a ton of since that is the size he wore in Disney!  For now I am just doing a ton of wash as it is supposed to go up in the 70s again next week and then  hopefully he will just be in shorts from here on out.

The asthma situation is frustrating.  We saw the specialist two weeks ago who was aghast that we were still doing pulmicort/xopenex every day.  Dude, I don't have asthma and I know no one whose child has it this young.  I am only doing what the doctor, that we got rid of by the way, said to do.  We were instructed to give him the pulmicort twice a day and albuterol as needed.  Sounds good to me, except if he doesn't get the albuterol at night he coughs all night long and then is doing some majorly fast breathing by the time I go to get him in the morning.  I call and he says, well he probably needs it at night and that means his asthma isn't well controlled yet.  OK.  Then I ask when to give the albuterol because he can't tell me yet.  He says well, "at night, when he turns blue or stops playing."  LOVELY, wait until he turns blue you say.  You know, even though I don't have asthma I have needed an inhaler before due to season allergies and pneumonia and I am 100% sure they didn't tell me to wait until I turned blue to use it.

I didn't know what he was talking about when he said the not playing thing but I quickly found out.  Now when we are outside he will get winded and come to me and want to be picked up.  He isn't full out wheezing yet or turning blue but he no longer wants to play so then I just bring him in and we chill out inside.  It sucks.  I then talk to his pedi about it two weeks later and he said the same thing, albuterol is a rescue, he doesn't need it as often anymore.  Blah blah blah.  "His asthma probably isn't well controlled."

How about you fuckers tell me how to control it better.  He is already on a shit load of shit that apparently isn't working as well as it should.  I keep telling you I think the singulair does absolutely nothing for him yet you keep him on it anyway.

Oh, and you know how much albuterol they gave me?  25 vials per month, which last time I checked isn't even enough to give him one vial a night.  OMG OMG OMG