On the mend

My kids are extremely healthy, due to some stroke of dumb luck. The worst either of them has had is a cold or a slight touch of the flu.

In fact, when my mom asked me if my doctor was fairly easy to get into if a kid was sick, I had to confess I didn't know since we've never had to go for anything other than a well-child visit since we moved here.

But when Sam had a fever and severe cough for 3 days straight, I thought I better get it checked out.

And we came home with this.
Quite impressive!

The doctor said he has pneumonia and he was lucky enough to get to have breathing treatments a few times a day since Monday. (Lucky is being used sarcastically, in case you couldn't tell.)

He's not so fond of them.

But he's on the mend - he didn't require any treatments today and has been fever free for almost 48 hours.

I'm sure he'll be sad to take the nebulizer back to the doctor's office.