Pneumonia 3 months late

Hayley has had a nasty rattling, wheezing cough for about 2 weeks. I was waiting to see if was just one of her normal coughs:  her usual allergy/asthma cough, 60 degrees then 30 degrees weather cough or  it's time to get walking pneumonia cough. IT was getting no better so that ruled out the first two and it was starting to get on my nerves and hers do off to the wonderful Dr office we went!! ( Thank God for schedule days off school/work, I pack them full of Dr visits)

Dr Massey was out, so we saw Dr McKenna and he treats us almost as good as Dr. M does!! First up was weighing in, she was very excited to see how much she weighs. My poor kids have been trying to hi the 50 pound mark for the past 2 years, well today was the day for Hayley....she weighs 50.6 pounds!!! We both were super excited, this is the first year that she has actually gained weight in a long while.  My kids have are both  so lean and lanky, one day they will be wishing this would stay!!

After a legnthy exam, Mc Kenna said her ears are "interesting" (One tube in and one way out. We knew this thanks to Nurse Jennifer at school and we going to ENT at 3:45) and her lungs are pretty tight and junky sounding. We did a breathing treatment to try to clear lungs to get a better sound of just how "full" they are. Good news is that they are nasty but not all the way full!!! For us that is awesome news because Hayley always gets pneumonia every October, so the fact that we are 3 months later and not as bad is music to our ears and that we are not staying overnight at  Kosairs yet is even better!!!

Can you tell that we have been doing this for years? She is an old pro at it!!

A double does of antibiotics, upped inhalers and usage, and breathing treatments and we are good to go!! We are watching her and will recheck next Monday to see if things improved any. No worries, we are old pros at this so we are going to kick this quick and without a stay at Kosairs!!