360 degree turn around

Wednesday Ben slept in until 9 am. I think that he was just trying to get caught up on the sleep he had been missing this past week. It is amazing what two shots in the leg will do for a kid. The fever is now gone, hurray, hurray, hurray! He didn't want to lay around and sleep all day long. He is full of smiles and giggles now and bugging Daddy to play MarioKart on the Wii. He hasn't wanted to do this for a long time so of course Daddy will go along with it.

Mommy gets to go back to work on Thursday and Ben will spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa Starling. It's wonderful to have them close by still and willing to keep him when he isn't completely up to par.

We need warm weather!

Sunday came and his temperature hadn't improved so we called 1st Nurse and got him into the Sunday clinic. Dr Paschen didn't like that the fever was still around so Ben got to have his finger poked to check his white blood count. Everything was normal Sunday. Fast-forward to Tuesday morning. Ben woke up with a temperature of 102 so I got to take a day off from work. By 11 am his fever was up to 105. Another call to 1st Nurse and she said to call Pediatrics and let them know that Ben needs to be seen today. Our doctor had the afternoon off since he worked the Sunday morning clinic so we got to see the Nurse Practioner. At this point I really didn't care who we saw. I just want to get my baby better. She hears a crackle in the chest and wants to do another blood test to see if his white count has increased and also take a chest xray. After a few minutes of screaming and crying at the lab they poke his finger and the screaming stops. He then sits there and watches as they collect the blood in the tube. We got done there and went of to Radiology for the xray. He was fine with that since it wouldn't hurt and they woldn't be poking him any more.

The results are back. His white count is up to around 14, Sunday it was a 9. He has a rather large spot on his lung. It's pneumonia and we get to have two shots, one in each leg and ten days of antibiotics. The weird thing is, Ben doesn't mind shots. He laid there and watched the nurses the entire time.

We go back to the doctor on Friday to make sure that this is clearing up.

Another Saturday Night

It's Saturday evening, Ben is napping on the couch, Chad is playing some game on the Xbox and we haven't had supper yet. I'm hoping that this nap will break Ben's fever that he has been running since Thursday. What a way to spend your 6th birthday; at home with the flu. I had ordered cupcakes from the store so that he could take them to school that day, the cupcakes made it there but he didn't. He really didn't seem to upset about it so I know that he really wasn't feeling well. If his fever isn't gone tonight we get to go to the Sunday clinic and visit another doctor. We have been to the doctor more already this year than the last two years combined. As you can tell he usually isn't sick enough for me to run him to the doctor. I usually just push the fluids and let it run it's course. I better get the leftover hamburger casserole reheated and go do my grocery shopping. Not really something I want to do since I worked at the store all day. Oh well, what am I to do.