Bacterial Pneumonia

Yesterday was crazy. Aly woke up in the morning fine but by nighttime she was in the ER! KK and I have had a cold this last week. Aly woke up this morning and seemed to be coming down with a cold. She was fine though, happy, energetic, etc. By noon she started to feel bad. She spiked a 102 fever and began coughing uncontrollably. I gave her ibuprofen which brought her fever down to 100. Around 6 she took a nap. Hubby came home and noticed that in her sleep she was breathing rapidly. He woke her up. She continued with the rapid breathing which began to scare us.

I called a mom who had gone through asthma and croup with her children. I knew she would give me some good advice. While we were talking she looked up the symptoms and told me I should take her in to ER. After all, by this time it was 8 p.m. at night and who wants to go to bed with a child who is having difficulty breathing. She said the symptoms were pointing to pneumonia.

We brought her to ER. She had bronchitis last Nov. and had never really fully recovered. We had her rechecked in Jan. but the Dr. said she sounded o.k. We had to buy a humidifier due to her coughing at night.

The Dr. ordered a chest xray. The xray showed she had pneumonia in her right lung. Sadly for her they gave her an injection of a strong antibiotic plus a prescription for zythromax. She was so upset by the shot, it was so sad. They brought three people in to help with it too! I was almost crying!

She is still having some rapid breathing and her cough is pretty yucky but she is showing signs of getting better. She apparently has a bacterial pneumonia. She will be out of school the rest of the week and will miss her Valentine's party. Poor thing!

Anyway, hopefully she will get better soon! So scary how suddenly the whole thing came on!