you may just end up pleasantly surprised.
Don’t get me wrong, I set high expecations in certain scenarios – my own successes, my children being polite, etc. but when it comes to Nathan’s sputum cultures at his CF clinic I like to set my expectations low .
The disease of Cystic Fibrosis is already like riding an emotional roller coaster, I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment every 2 to 3 months.
Pseudomonas aeruginosacolonies on agar via textbookofbacteriology.net
Basically I don’t want to set myself up to be constantly disappointed. By setting my expectations low in the sputum culture, bacterial growth scenario – my expectations will either be met or I may ended up pleasantly surprised like this morning.
Normal flora only, for the first time since we switched CF care centers.
But since both kids had a goobery weekend, and Nathan’s cough is currently thick and gunky, he will be doing a round of oral Cipro on top of his maintaince doses of zithromax and bactrim.
Slightly off topic, Nathan picked up a bad word from Jay over the weekend. When Nathan has a coughing fit he gets frustrated and tells us he is trying to cough and that he doesn’t want to cough. Jay told him that is because he has a like of crap in his lungs. Nathan responded I want to cough the crap out. Trying not to draw attention to it, instead I am trying to tell him it is not a nice word and move on.
you may just end up pleasantly surprised.
Don’t get me wrong, I set high expecations in certain scenarios – my own successes, my children being polite, etc. but when it comes to Nathan’s sputum cultures at his CF clinic I like to set my expectations low .
The disease of Cystic Fibrosis is already like riding an emotional roller coaster, I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment every 2 to 3 months.
Pseudomonas aeruginosacolonies on agar via textbookofbacteriology.netBasically I don’t want to set myself up to be constantly disappointed. By setting my expectations low in the sputum culture, bacterial growth scenario – my expectations will either be met or I may ended up pleasantly surprised like this morning.
Normal flora only, for the first time since we switched CF care centers.
But since both kids had a goobery weekend, and Nathan’s cough is currently thick and gunky, he will be doing a round of oral Cipro on top of his maintaince doses of zithromax and bactrim.
Slightly off topic, Nathan picked up a bad word from Jay over the weekend. When Nathan has a coughing fit he gets frustrated and tells us he is trying to cough and that he doesn’t want to cough. Jay told him that is because he has a like of crap in his lungs. Nathan responded I want to cough the crap out. Trying not to draw attention to it, instead I am trying to tell him it is not a nice word and move on.