Poor kid can't catch a break.

Owen's had a cough for months. It gets better and worse but it's always there. His dr and I have been keeping an eye on it for quite awhile. He had an ear infection a little while ago (at the same time as the cough) so he was on antibiotics. The ear infection went away, the cough stayed. We chalked it up to a bug/virus. Except it still hasn't gone away. Thursday night it got really bad (he also had a mild fever). Since we had a big weekend and beginning of this week I took him to the dr on Friday morning, just to rule out any throat or ear infections before the weekend. All was clear, just the cough and mild wheezing. We went home and kept an eye on it. A week later, it's still not better. So, back to the dr this morning (I also wanted to talk to him about the evaluation Owen had done).

First the dr wants him to have a chest x-ray done just to rule out anything odd going on. He said he's seen kids who had a cough for months and when they finally get a chest x-ray done they find out they asperated a piece of a toy or something. It would be rare, but possible. So he's going to get that done probably tomorrow morning.

The dr fully expects the x-ray to be normal. If that is the case, his next guess is asthma. Right now he's calling it "reactive airway disease"... basically Owen is coughing and wheezing and we don't know why. We are going to try albuterol and see if it helps. If it does, we lean more towards asthma. If it doesn't... we'll brainstorm more and try to figure out how to help this cough/wheezing.

As far as the evaluation he just had goes... the dr and I pretty much agree on it. PDD-NOS seems to fit. Owen has some quirks. He has some signs of autism. He doesn't have enough to meet the criteria for autism. But yet, he's not quite typical either. For now, pdd-nos fits. With the adhd- as the dr said.... he could walk down the street and point out a dozen people within 5 minutes that he can diagnose with adhd. It means nothing. Yes, we'll keep it in mind. No, we are not going to medicate him. It may be a way to explain some of his quirks, sure. But maybe it's not. Who knows. Same with OCD. Just another "roll your eyes and keep it in mind" type of thing. Am I going to jump up and medicate him? Not a chance. Will I keep that possibility in mind? Sure.

For now we are going to try to find some sort of behaviour therapist he can start seeing to work on some of his major issues.

Soooo... that's the update for now.