At Nash's clinic visit last week they did a throat culture to test for different bacterial infections. They say that typically it takes 10-14 days for the results and no news is good news. Because this is the first throat culture he's had they said they would call us either way with the results.
I'm still learning about all this stuff but basically pseudomonas is a bacterium that can cause a bacterial infection which for CF patients can be harmful to their lungs. Pseudomonas is everywhere, soil, vegetation, water etc. If a CF patient were to test positive on a throat culture for pseudomonas then they would be given antibiotics called "TOBI" to treat it.
For a long time now I've been really looking forward to taking Nash swimming and upon learning more about pseudomonas I thought maybe we wouldn't go. Well, it's our personal decision not to let this fear stop us. Let us swim! We did want to wait until he at least had his 4-month shots just to build up his overall protection while being in public places and as for the risk of pseudomonas, we will not take him near the hot tub, as it is more common in warm water, and we'll be quick to wash him off at the pool and then a thorough bath once we are home.
So today we arrived at the pool and upon seeing how busy it was I could tell immediately what P.J. was thinking. Then he turns and says to me, "That's a lot of germs". Well I could have hit him! I said, "I went through all this effort to get here, we're going swimming."
Nash was people watching like the best of them and although as P.J. says, he didn't do much (what, was he expecting him to do, the front crawl?) he seemed to enjoy it and I enjoyed getting out of the house and doing something besides going to a Mommy and Baby movie or going to friends' houses.
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| Nash and I his first time swimming |
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