Pnemonia

AJ and Addison got the nasty cold that has been traveling around our family. On Thursday, They were doing so much better, so I took them to gymnastics lessons. Regretting that by Thursday night, the cold was back with a vengeance. By Friday morning I knew Addison needed to go to the Dr. I was really worried about her. She couldn't sleep at all. She would wake up every 10 minutes coughing and cough so hard the only way she would stop is if she threw up or dry heaved and then she would cry, until she fell back to sleep. Of course Josh was in New Mexico, I am sure she would have rather had her dad to cuddle with. I spent the night holding her trying to keep her up right. The next morning I struggled with the decision of whether or not to take AJ in to see the Dr. too. Our co-pays doubled a little while ago. I bought a cheap otoscope awhile ago at Walmart, so I could check for ear infections. Last year I got pretty good at spotting them, but I wasn't sure if Aj had an ear infection or not. I ended up making the appointment for both of them and paying the $50 to see the Dr. We went in and Dr Clarke had a student who checked out the babies first. He looked at Addie and said it was all still Viral. Not what I wanted to here. There is nothing like paying a bunch of money for the Dr to say nothing we can do, wait it out. Then he moved on to AJ. He listened to his lungs for a really long time. I always panic a little when they take a long time listening. That is how they first found Cassady's heart murmur. Then he said,"Well, this kids pretty sick, it is in his lungs." He told me a bunch of stuff in Dr. llingo. I said,"In plain eniglish what does that mean". He said well we need to get a chest x-ray to see how bad it is, but he has pneumonia (thank goodness for spell check on that one) . I was shocked. I was so glad I bit the bullet and brought AJ in too. Dr. Clarke came in and said,"His ears are infected and he seems like it is not affecting his air intake too much, so I will just give him a strong anti-biotic that will take care of the ears and the pneumonia. We will hold off on the chest X-ray and save you guys the suffering and the money." He told us some other things we needed to do for AJ and some to try for Addie. Addie still suffered through the weekend not getting much better, so on Monday I called in and the Dr called in an anti-biotic for her. So both babies are back to normal and doing great. So far I have gotten the Sinus pressure, that was accompanied one day by a migraine, but I have been fighting it off with Zicam, Echinacia, viatamin C, and going to the gym. Don't forget the Diet Coke, not that helps fight a cold, but it sure makes me feel better. I keep saying some day soon I will be done with it again for good. I am hoping this is as bad as it will get.