Saturday was not a fine day at our house. Graham got his first black eye and Logan got his first x-ray. Sigh.
We had Logan's kindergarten (AACK!) picnic that morning. It was a great oppurtunity for him to play on the playground and to meet some other kids he will be in school with next year. It was kind of a big flop. Logan was getting sick (more on that later) and had zero interest in interacting with anyone. Then, not long after we got there, Graham fell on the steps of the play ground and bumped his eye. I was right there! (Did I mention that I was right there?!) I even caught his arm, but I could not stop his little face from hitting the iron step. I could tell within a few minutes that it was starting to black, but I had NO IDEA that it would turn into the huge shiner it is today.
This is just a couple of hours after being at home:
These were taken a few days later, and you can tell that it started
blacking all the way around. Believe it or not, it looks worse now. All
green/purple/black...it is just pitiful. (I will say that this will probably not be the last black eye that this kid gets. Just throwing that out there. He's a tough one!)
Meanwhile.....Logan is getting more and more sick as the day goes on. In
the afternoon, we started thinking that maybe he was coming down with
something. By 6:30pm, we had one of those parenting moments where we both looked at each other and just started moving. We KNEW he was sick. Really sick. I was in the middle of
cooking dinner and tending to Graham with his blackened eye and in his worst
part of the day (he is in bed by 7pm, usually.) So, Shane took Logan to
the doctor on his own. By the time they got there, he was completely lethargic,
slumped over in the chair and not responding too much. They almost sent
them to the ER, but decided to see him there. (Which, I am sooooo
grateful for because who knows how long they would have had to wait at
the ER.) They suspected that it was pneumonia. They did the nebulizer which helped his chest sound a little better, but did not help his stats. They did the chest x-ray, which did not show pneumonia, thank God. Turned out that he had some crazy strand of strep that has been going around that has bronchial affects. Immediately after the nebulizer, Shane said he was like a different kid. Poor thing just could not get enough air. It just breaks my heart to think about.
I am so grateful to Shane for being an awesome Daddy. I feel incredibly blessed to have a husband that I trust 100% to take care of my kids, even in such a stressful and intense situation. He explained the nebulizer and x-ray to Logan, and Logan handled it all awesome.
Here is a picture of him back home that night, settled into his "bed" on the floor of our room. (We let him sleep a few nights there while he was recovering.) He went back to school Wednesday and did t-ball practice tonight, so I think he's pretty much 100%. It was so scary, but thank goodness for awesome doctors!
And, now....poor Graham has been running fever since yesterday. I immediately took him to the doctor assuming it was strep and scared to death of the bronchial reaction that Logan had. The strep culture came back negative, however, since I was so "immediate" in taking him, they said it might have been too early to show. We have him on antibiotics anyways to fend of either strep or an ear infection, but he was still running over 102 degrees tonight. So, now I'm thinking maybe it's viral....I spent last night sleeping on an air mattress in his room, and plan to do the same tonight. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we are past the worst of it! Here's hoping for a healthy summer coming our way...
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