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If you read yesterday's post, you know that Rebekah is still struggling with coughing and choking at different, random times during the day.  This morning she also woke up breathing very heavily, as if she had just been running around playing for an extended period of time.  Several times yesterday and today Rebekah has also tapped the center of her chest and said "owie."

Rebekah did get an appointment this morning with her pediatrician.  He spent a great deal of time listening to her lungs from every conceivable angle.  And, he heard the same things that I had heard last night - very soft breath sounds in the right lung, and a strange two-part hiccuping sound in the left lung. Both of those things are distinctly different from Rebekah's normal.  So Rebekah earned a ticket to the hospital for an (outpatient) x-ray.  Unfortunately, the x-ray didn't show any change from the last x-ray Rebekah had at MUSC.

The good news in all of this is that Rebekah is maintaining her oxygen sats on her own, so she isn't needing any supplemental oxygen right now (other than what she was already on at night).  Rebekah also is not running a fever, nor does she have any other symptoms that would indicate she is "sick."  She is playing and running around with her brothers in spite of the coughing and breathing abnormalities.

Since Rebekah's pediatrician couldn't pinpoint a specific reason for her cough and other symptoms, he referred us back to Dr. L, Rebekah's cardiologist.  His office called this afternoon, and we have an appointment tomorrow morning with Dr. L.  We will see what tomorrow's visit brings!

Nancy