Chest Xray

Have you ever tried to wrestle an Alligator?

Well that is how it was yesterday trying to get Jack to do this

for a chest X ray at the hospital

P.s. this is not Jack. I did not have enough hands

and Jack didn't have enough patience for pictures!

Don't you just look at this and say 'ya right?'

I took Jack to the doctor on May 18th. He had been coughing with congestion from May 14ish and I was using the nebulizer but it was persisting. And you know Jack's history with this stuff.

Anyhow Doctor said keep up the nebulizer twice a day and give Robitussin.

Hmmmmm.

I questioned her decision (she didn't like that) and eventually I agreed. She said she didn't hear any wheezing at that point.

Well, on June 2nd I called back. Two weeks had passed and now the cough had a bark. But he didn't cough all the time. But there was now a runny nose that was green sometimes and intermittent fevers. So she listens to his lungs and she mentions now he sounds icky to her. (Hmmmm, I know that!) and she finally gives the antibiotic and sends me for a chest x-ray. So look what I had to do. I had to hold Jack like that. As you can probably guess, this did not go over well with the toddler. Or the mommy.

I had the worst headache ever once I left the hospital from all the screaming.

But I need to say, the staff was so sweet to Jack. They gave him a puppet in the radiology waiting room. He received a sticker from the xray tech. A car from the radiologist. They were sweet as pie to our little guy.

Today our doctor called and said there was huge inflammation in Jacks lungs. Severe bronchitis, one step away from pneumonia.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Haven't we done this all before?

Isn't that why I start the nebulizer at the first cough and call to get him in if that doesn't ease him up in a two days? Geez.

So, I am trying stay cool and calm about it. We are going at is aggressively over the weekend. 3 treatments a day. Etc. And back to the office I go on Monday at 9 am. And he's hot again today. The temp read 101 at one point. But luckily the fever is gone now. And he's happy as a clam playing right beside me right now. Let's hope this aggressive steroid and antibiotic work. I'll be praying. Will you too?

Doctors. They kill me, ya know.