Jeanne

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Jeanne,

No need to apologise, were just jealous LOL! You take what you can to

make your life easier, we would. Our government wont pay for them as

they say they are no more effective. I don't care about that but would

like to be freed up for that 1 1/2 hours a day. I hope my reply

didn't sound like I was telling you off, I was only saying your lucky to

have access to it. Eilish is good at lying still for physio, so

thankfully that improved with age, but she would have had fun making the

vest into a rocket or something. Good luck to Shaelin with it.

(Australia)

Countries with no vest

Hello everyone,

I apologize for my insensitivity to those who do not have access to

the vest. We are only in our trial phase and I had just wanted to

share how well it is working. I have been consistently doing CPT

2x/day but on a 2 year old I always questioned whether I was getting

every lung field, clapping hard enough (but not too hard), and

keeping Shaelin in any one position for any length of time was always

a struggle. I also felt I was the only one who was really giving him

his therapy correctly. My husband was always concerned about hurting

him and I always had to remind him that he had to " pound him "

harder. Shaelin would frequently manage to get away from him so he

would give up and I would have to take over.

In any case, despite the vest, Shaelin is sick and coughing for the

first time, so it is no miracle! Over the past week he has been seen

by the pediatrian and was started on Ceftin, was seen by his Nurse

Practitioner and has an appointment tomorrow with his pulmonologist.

I think he will either be back on TOBI or need to be hospitalized for

a clean-out as this is his third consecutive month on antibiotics.

Jeanne (foster Mom to Shaelin, 2 1/2wcf)