Tuesday, August 21, 2007

AC has pneumonia!







Okay so here's the update on my little man. His temperature returned yesterday and spiked at 104.5. We took him to the emergency room. We got to the ER at 6:10 p.m. My dad met us (my Mom, the kids, and myself) there and went in with us then left with the younger two - to go home feed them supper and let them play. We were called up to the triage and they gave him some Motrin which as you can see in a couple of the pictures made him feel lots better. We finally got called into the back at 9:30 - the doctor came in to see him at 10:20 and hooked him up to an IV for dehydration. The doctor ordered blood work which came back normal. The doctor came back in and while talking to us heard AC cough. He commented on how wet it sounded and ordered a chest x-ray. He told us that after being rehydrated it could flare enough junk up to be seen in the chest x-ray that is why he doesn't order them right off. Well the doctor came back and told us that he has LLL (Lower Left Lung) Pneumonia. They would have missed it if done prior to the rehydration. AC was such a trooper when they put the IV in and took 4 viles of blood - he looked at his mom once and pinch the bridge of his nose to keep from crying but never did really cry in fact he watch what they were doing the majority of the time. He did grumble a little when we woke him up and took him to x-rays, he asked will it hurt? After being assured it didn't he was so so so good. He reacted more when they took the tape off from the IV than he did any other time - because the tape was pulling the hair off his little hand.

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