pneumonia

Normally healthy - our family has been hit hard with sickness the last few weeks. The kids had nasty colds a few weeks ago and Wyatt started with a wet but productive cough. He also had styes on his eyes - hence the three visits to the dr. last month because eyes aren't something that can be fixed by chiropractic care!

Last Wednesday he ended up back at the dr. because he had 2 more styes on the other eye and I just wasn't happy with them spreading from one eye to the other. Dr. Justice (love him!) prescribed some drops for his eyes and thankfully they're (slowly) getting better.

We switched to Dr. Justice last year and I really like him a lot. He's great with Wyatt and really on the ball. My only "complaint" is that he's family practice and doesn't see a lot of young pediatric patients and hence isn't in the habit of checking ears and listening to breathing each visit just because... If he was then maybe I would have been saved another $35 co-pay (man do those add up!).

So the same day that Wyatt went for his eye - he started coughing again and this time it sounded different. I don't really know how to describe it - but I just knew that something was wrong. Because I'm the watch and see kind of parent I monitored it over the next few days and by Sunday I knew it was something that needed to be discussed with the dr. I called first thing monday morning only to wait 5 hours for a return call to tell me they had no openings for him that day.

We took an appointment at 11:15 this morning instead.

It was hard getting him up and moving this morning - he kept telling me that he wanted to go back to sleep. By the time we dropped Maddie off to school (late) he was looking pretty tired. We went to Cafe Liquid and he just wasn't himself - didn't want to leave my lap and was acting quite lethargic.

We got to the dr. and I told his nurse that I really feared that Wyatt had pneumonia and I was right unfortunately.

He's on azythromyacin for 5 days and we go back next tuesday to see if he's better. I really hope my little guy gets better soon - I hate seeing him so sick!