Update on Ethan

Ethan is now over 9 weeks into his TOBI treatments. We had about 2 1/2 weeks left of treatments. A week after treatments end we will go back in for another culture to see if the pseudomonas is gone. We went in about 2 weeks ago and it came back as rare pseudomonas. It's not completely gone yet, so they prescribed more Cipro antibiotic for 2 weeks and we are little more than halfway through that.

June is looking to be very busy for us. We are going to Avila Beach on vacation the first week. The following week we will have Ethan's next culture and clinic. The week after that we will get results back from the culture. If the culture is negative for pseudomonas Ethan will have a brochoscopy to look inside his lungs for any inflammation, buildup and pseudomonas. He will also have a sample taken. If the culture is positive he will most likely be admitted to the hospital for 7-10 days for IV antibiotics. I can say with certainty that June will not be any fun, especially if Ethan is admitted. We'll see how it all plays out, but hopefully everything will turn out great!