The Story of Brian.....

After the allergy test, we met with the doctor again. He told us to immediately stop all medication. The pills, the 7 different inhalers that he was currently on, and the breathing machine. In his opinion, Brian did not have asthma.

We could remain at the clinic and go to the scheduled appointments the balance of the week....but he did not feel it necessary. With everything that we had been thru and everything that Brian had been thru...we packed our bags and headed for home.

We could not have been more thankful for this doctor and for The Mayo Clinic. We were very hopeful and very scared. He concluded that over the past couple of years, the many doctors and specialists, that Brian was being over-medicated. He never did want to see any of Brian's medical records. He did not want to be influenced by the past couple of years and the fact that Brian slowly got worse, not better.

So we started our journey home....

The cough...........The Story of Brian....

We arrived in Rochester Sunday. We had appointments with a doctor on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The Clinic was incredible. First was signing a ton of paperwork. Most of the tests that they would run would not be covered by our health insurance. The insurance company would not ok duplicate testing to be done. Whatever the cost, this had to be done.

There were lines 20 to 50 people long for bloodwork, x-rays, etc. Everything ran with complete efficiency. First was Brian's bloodwork, which we got done pretty fast. Next we went to our first appointment with the doctor.

I had a huge bag which we carried all Brian's medical records, x-rays, and cat scan. The doctor was very nice. We were very overwelmed, but he made us feel very comfortable. As we started to talk about the problems with Brian, I reached for my bag of information and the doctor said "no". I don't want to see anything yet......tell me about your son.

For the first time ever, Jack and I talked to this doctor for hours about Brian. When all the problems started and what had taken place in the last year or so.

Next would be an alergy test on Tuesday and another appointment with the doctor.

The cough...........The Story of Brian....

Even with all the medication, the cough persisted. The doctor felt that if we got a breathing machine for our house and we gave Brian breathing treatments a couple of times a day it would help.

We did this for a couple of months. Brian was on a total of 5 medications, including the 3 inhalers.

Nothing helped. We were completely helpless.....

So we picked up all of the x-rays, copies of Brian's files at all of the doctor's he had been seeing and left for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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The cough...........The Story of Brian....

After a couple of weeks on the added medication, we went back to the doctor because Brian's cough did not change. He suggested that we see an ear, nose, and throat specialist. We made the appointment that day.

The ear, nose, and throat specialist could add nothing. He had no answers for us. After a couple more weeks, we were back to the doctor again.