Sick again.

Little Matthew is sick again. He had a fever for 3 days a little bit of coughing and a little bit of throwing up. All too familiar from just a couple of months ago. We ran him down to the Dr.'s and sure enough he has strep again. We got the drugs, started treating him and a couple days later, another 3 to be exact, he still has a fever and is not doing any better. I take him down to another walk-in clinic, and they poke him shove things up his nose, take a chest x-ray. They tested him for RSV, the flu, and pneumonia. Everything is negative, the x-ray showed a little bit of fluid in the tissue of the lungs but not the fluid you see with pneumonia. He had a term for it, but I couldn't repeat it.

I was a mess, after all I'm pregnant and can't control my emotions, I haven't slept for the last 5 nights. I was a wreck. The Dr. asked "does he have shortness of breath?" and he doesn't but I started to cry. The Dr. just looked at me and I just apologized and shook my head and blamed it on the pregnancy. He laughed but I'm sure he thinks I'm a crazy woman. One of the young women leaders I work with called to talk about our activity, she asks about him and what do I do? Yes, I cry. I did get a meal out of it, but again felt stupid because I can't control my emotions.

The Dr. called this morning and the radiologist had a chance to look at Matthew's x-ray, and he diagnosed Matthew with pneumonia. (The Dr. is actually a PA and told me the first diagnosis was his and the radiologist still had to look at it.)

Poor boy couldn't eat anything, he wanted to but his tonsils were so big. He would cough and gag and throw up whatever he just tried to eat. Kevin has been kicked out to the couch so he can get his sleep and survive the work day, Matthew has been in the bed with me so I can watch him and his fever. He's been doing nothing but literally sleeping, only about 15 min. at a time because he wakes up coughing up his lungs. He's been up and playing with Allison today, and he's been happy for small amounts of time. We are able to see his smile again. Things are starting to look good for the poor boy. He actually slept in his own bed last night and only woke up once. I didn't give him any tylenol or ibprofin yesterday or today, so fever is finally done. You can tell he is still sick, but a lot better than what he was.



This is how we spent the last several days. One good thing out of it. They way Matthew sleeps on me I've been able to feel the baby move lots and lots. I think Matthew has felt it too.



Good thing I have an extra "Lady Lump" for him to sleep on it looks kind of comfy.



Poor, poor boy. I can't wait till it is all over and I have my little happy boy back.