sick again

Wednesday Av came home from school not feeling well. As the night went on I got more and more worried about her. Her breathing was just off. It was hard for me to decide if it was just fast from the fever or if something was off with it. So I decided to play it safe and when John got home Av and I left for a Take Care Clinic at Walgreens. I had called and they said they could see a 4 year old. So we got there and it was a joke. The lady tried but ended up saying she thought she had pneumonia but didn’t know for sure and didn’t have the equipment to tell for sure. She sent us to an immediate care. By the time we got seen at the immediate care Av’s fever was back up so they thought the breathing was just fever breathing. They checked her all out and decided it was just a virus. At that point Av kind of perked up so I was feeling better about the whole thing. At 8:30 she was hungry. She ate her dinner well and went to bed. The next morning she woke up pretty okay too. By noon though she was heading down hill. Her fever came back, she was breathing fast, her heart seemed to be racing, she was moaning like she was very uncomfortable and she was not making sense while talking. I made a dr appointment and sent her to bed for a bit. She fell asleep and when I woke her for her appointment she seemed better so the whole time we waited at the dr I was second guessing myself. Kept thinking they were just going to tell me the same thing they told me last night. They didn’t though. He said she had an ear infection and was going to give us an antibiotic for that but still wanted to send us for a chest x-ray. He said the meds would clear up pneumonia if she did have it but he thought it would still be worth it for us to know for sure if she did have it. After sitting in another waiting room with a limp 4 year old in my lap for an hour we finally got the x-rays taken. We had to wait again for the results. Before leaving Av’s dr he told me he would be the one to give me the results over the phone while we were still at the x-ray place. Well when we got on the phone his nurse told me that he needed us back in the office. That scared the crap out of me. She said he needed to see her and he wanted to do something else. I didn’t know what he had seen on the x-ray (tumor???) but I couldn’t call John or anyone because I didn’t want Av to hear that I was scared. So back to the dr I drove us. Come to find out the pneumonia was in her left lung right behind her heart and he wanted to make sure her blood pressure and oxygen levels were okay again. They were thankfully, but if they had not been he was going to admit us into the hospital. The whole day I was telling Av that the stuff the drs needed to do might be a little scary (x-ray) but none of this would hurt (like a shot would). Well the dr decided to give her a shot of an antibiotic to get it going. By that point though Av didn’t even really have the energy to fight it. It was quite the day but thankfully we have wonderful doctors that care so much. She is much better and will soon be back to herself.