Walking pneumonia

Cade has it. He was feeling crappy at the start of the week and I kept him home from school on Tuesday. But Tripp said by Tuesday evening he was fine and running around and playing football outside (I was at work). Wednesday super early he woke up and said he was having a hard time taking in a deep breath. When he woke back up to get ready for school, he just seemed like he felt horrible so we made him go back to bed. While he was asleep I just had a feeling I should take him to the doc. I woke him up around noon and took him in. The doc said his lungs sounded pretty bad and his pulse ox (the oxygen in his blood) was not the best. He needed two breathing treatments and she still heard crackles, so she said he had walking pneumonia (apparently the difference between that and regular pneumonia is the lack of fever). He is on antibiotics for 10 days and an inhaler every 4 hours for 24-48 hours. I had to work again yesterday evening but Tripp said he was pretty miserable, bad headache, throwing up, just felt awful. He went to bed last night at 8pm and woke up a little bit after I got home feeling much better. I hung out with him until almost 3 am and by the time he woke up this morning he was feeling almost 100%. He still has the cough, but other than that he's great. It's amazing how fast kids can bounce back! Apparently he has been unable to take a real deep breath for a while now, I told him it would have been a good thing to tell somebody! Mom was saying it is crazy that he's been toughing it out playing football and baseball....he's one tough dude :)

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