Who Pneu?

In true Connor fashion, he developed yet another cold over the weekend.  He had a cough but seemed fine otherwise.  On Monday night, after Speech, he came down with a high fever.  I kept him home Tuesday, and Wednesday we had a snow day, so he was home again.  I thought he was feeling better Wednesday, but that night he seemed to get worse, and I noticed he was taking quick, shallow breaths while he was sleeping, which is not normal.  We went to the doctor's first thing Thursday morning so they could check him out.  After listening extensively to his chest, they told me they suspected pneumonia!  Off we went to Weymouth to get an X-Ray to know for sure.  Connor was VERY good during the X-Ray.  Luckily, it's been one of his favorite words to spell lately, so he was intrigued to see the machine that goes with the name.

The X-Ray's confirmed the pneumonia. Connor's been on nebulizer treatments every 4 hours, and amoxicillin three times a day.  We went back to the doctor's yesterday for a re-check and the doctor's still heard crackling in his chest so they wanted to see us again today.  Connor's chest sounded better, but wasn't he diagnosed with an ear infection!  So we had to head back to the pharmacy to get Augmentin to replace the amoxicillin.  The poor kid can't seem to catch a break.  He DOES seem much better today, though.  He's more active and actually eating a little bit, which he hasn't done much of this week (he's lost 3 lbs. since Thursday!).  We've done a lot of cuddling on the couch and added naptime back into his schedule.  Let's hope he's on the road to recovery!