Right main bronchus

This is a mild 'episodic croup' attack beginning. We taped this to show his doctors that Nate really was having long episodes of coughing fits and affected his breathing. The youtube videos were emailed to his doctors at the time because they did not believe there was a significant problem. Nate had a heart defect, which went unnoticed until he was 11months old. (?!) even though most x-rays indicated the defect on the films. -and somehow overlooked by physicians. He had heart surgery and emergency lung surgery by the time he was 18moths old. Despite this, he continued to have pulmonary problems and was misdiagnosed for another year...enduring repeated infections and treated aggressively with "asthma" medications. (he didn't have asthma, but what do moms know?) We flew him to Cincinnati Children's Hospital when he was 3, where they were able to accurately diagnose and confirm the cause: his particular heart defect causes his aorta to compress his right-main-bronchus. During normal healthy times, the compression reduces airflow to the right lung by approximately 50%. It easily worsens to 90% or more when he is sick, has allergies, is around dust or smoke or other airborne irritants. The doctors expected to see marked improvement , as he grew, and hoped to see him grow out of it the worst of it by maybe 4-5yrs of age. Another flex-bronch in Sept 2009 showed little change. This winter season we've been so lucky that the frequency of infection has reduced drastically <b>...</b>