If your not vaccinated...a hand shake is all you get:)

Good morning my dear friends and family.  I am in need of your help.:)  We need to get vaccinated!!!

As you all have probably heard, the whooping cough is back in full force.  There were numerous cases diagnosed last year in Wayne and other surrounding counties.  These cases have been fairly healthy people with no other health issues.  Thank God, the CF community hasn't had a case yet. 

There has now been a death due to this disease and the Center for Disease Control and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is urging everyone to get vaccinated.  Most importantly those that work in the health or education field, the elderly and those that care for the elderly, anyone that would be around an infant or small children, and ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE that would be in contact with someone with Cystic Fibrosis!

I am begging you to please get vaccinated as soon as possible.  If Lexi or one of the new babies that the Coley family is expecting were to catch this, it very probably would be fatal!  And it would be dumb to not get a simple shot that would protect those we love.

I called the Wayne County Health Department today.  They are giving vaccines Mon-Thurs 7-11:30am and 1-5pm.  The cost is only $35 and they will file your insurance.

Thank you for your help.

The saying in the medical field is this..."If a person has not been vaccinated, they should not kiss or hug your child!"  We love baby sugar too much to not do this!  Lets do it, people:)

BIG, BIG NEWS!!!!

We have had lots of great news in our almost 9 years of dealing with CF.  God has worked in so many ways thru our Lexi Loo.  He healed her liver, preventing her from having to have a liver transplant.  At her one year birthday, not only had 75% of Lexi's small intestines grown back...but she was ALIVE!!!  The doctors said she wouldn't live to see her first birthday:)  Now we have another "Great News Moment"!  Lexis upper respiratory culture came back completely negative! 

NEGATIVE!!!!!!!

I could shout it from a mountain!!

She has never had a completely negative lung culture.  There was always at least a little mold, or a little Staph, or a little Pseudomonas.  Most of the time all three.

We have made some tremendous sacrifices over the past few years.  We have changed all of the products we used to unscented, we clean vigorously to prevent dust and bacteria from being in our home, and biggest/hardest of all... we ask our friends and family to do the same.

We really have focused on this more since Lexi's allergy testing in May.  We had to change more products that we thought were unscented but still contained some allergy causing chemicals.  We try very hard to avoid smoke outside and don't let people who have been smoking come in contact with Lexi.  We don't go to homes where there have been inside animals.  I even had my sitter this summer use shampoo, deodorant, soap, and lotion that I bought for her.  She even put my clothes on to prevent her washing detergent from bothering Lexi...and guess what she was HAPPY to do it:)  Thanks Kerri. 

And guess what....thanks to our hard work diligently doing Lexi's treatments and the great people in our lives...IT HAS PAID OFF!!!!

Praising the Lord tonight...with out Him, Lexi wouldn't be here!

And as of now...she is healthier than ever!

Cystic Fibrosis is the illness with an unusual name
Affecting kids lives is its ultimate aim
If you want to know just what it can do
Then let it come and live in you
People say “what I go through is unbelievably hard”
...

But theres plenty out there dealt a lot worser card
Im happy, optimistic, grateful and strong
And with my friends and family life will be prosperous and long
It’s an illness we should never forget or ignore
And with todays gene technology surely its time for that cure
This girl has a secret and you better believe
She'll fight all her life for whats everyones right…
To breathe

Yay, good results!

Lexi had a really good check-up today.  We are so happy.  She has had this little cough since June 30th that seemed to linger, but it is better now.  She hardly even coughed during her pulmonary function test.  Her results were 101%...which is great!  Her weight is good and her lungs sounded pretty clear.  Thanks for all of the prayers.  Now we wait for her upper respiratory cultures to come back.  Keep praying that is good as well. 

PRAISING THE LORD tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CF check up tomorrow!

Lexi goes to UNC tomorrow for her check up.  Please keep her in your prayers.  :)

The results are in.

Well the results are in...and the news is good:)  Lexi's upper respiratory cultures came back pretty good.  She has some Staph and mold growing...not good, but not new either.  She often has both of these in her lungs at any given time.  This is wonderful news that she isn't growing anything strange...but it still doesn't explain Lexi's persistent cough. 

The doctors have decided to treat with Refampin and Septra for 4 weeks to hopefully take care of this crazy cough.  Say a little prayer each day that it will. 

Cough, Cough, Cough...

Please keep Lexi in your prayers.  She has struggled with a minor cough since Febuary.  We have tried to wait it out, hoped her inhaled Cayston would help, and finally completed a three week course of Septra.  None of these things worked, infact her cough seems to have worsened some:(

We go to UNC tomorrow for an unscheduled check up.  Please pray that all goes well.  CF can be so confusing.  I am never sure if her cough is common and to be expected...or something more. 

Thank you:)