We are back home again, after another stay at the hospital. We took Hannah to the doctor for a followup to her visits last week, and a routine check of her oxygen levels showed her running dangerously low (around 89). Dr. Fox put her on oxygen and sent her to East Tennessee Children's Hospital in an ambulance, with the lights and sirens running.

To make a long story short, they decided she has asthma-like symptoms (nobody has actually called it asthma yet), and sure enough, she has responded well to such treatment. She's now on scopolamine, which reduces her secretions, and she breathes fairly quietly for the first time in months! The noise reduction is secondary, of course; the main thing is that it indicates an improvement in her breathing. She's also getting pulmicort twice a day, Xoponex as needed, a four-day round of oral steroids, and Singulair once a day. New medicines to get used to, but she seems to be doing well with them.