Day 44: Lil dude is sick!

As you will see in previous posts, Brycen has been battling allergy/cold stuff for quite some time and now it's really taken a turn for the worse. He was on suprax (a very pricey antibiotic) to knock out his ear infections and just when we started to see improvements, bam! Sick again! This morning he woke up with a terrible sounding cough, almost croup-like and throughout the day it just sounded worse. After consulting with a few friends and family members, we broke out the ole nebulizer to see if we could try and break some of the congestion up. He does really good with the neb as long as you let HIM have complete control...

My poor buddy. So we started using the neb every four hours and I tried to keep him calm as much as possible since I noticed that any time he overexerted himself he would get into bad coughing bouts again. Of course, trying to keep a 2 year old still is pretty much wasted effort but we did what we could. By late afternoon he had a huge spike in temp and was coughing REALLY bad. I called the nurse who kinda sighed when I told her what was going on. I asked - "what! Do you think it could be the flu?" To which she responded "lets HOPE that it's the flu!" I'm sorry, but WHAAAATTT?!!!! So the symptoms he is having is leading them to believe he has pneumonia and we're to take him in first thing in the morning so the doctor can see him! I just wanna cry! I feel so bad for my poor lil dude because he just can't seem to catch a break. You've heard me say it a thousand times but he really is my happy little baby so to see him so sick, it's heartbreaking. Prayers for a good doctors visit and that we can get this crud knocked out soon!