Poor, sad, sick baby

I haven't posted in AGES!

Ok, last weekend we took Jack to watch the Gator Game @ Mellow Mushroom and he had a great time playing with other kids. Then he went to bed early and woke up at 3 with a 103.2 fever. I gave him Ibuprofen, it went down, he woke up feeling fine/acting normal, and we decided to go to the Fall Festival. He had fun, had a good (if a little sleepy) attitude. After his nap, he woke up with a fever again.

And it went on and on and on. I called the doctor, they said to bring him in if the fever lasted more than 5 days or if he seemed to feel terrible.

He'd be OK in the morning (acting normalish), then have a fever in the afternoon and middle of the night. And he wouldn't eat. He'd nurse a little, but did not eat a single bite of real food all week.

Finally, Thursday I took him in, they gave him a flu test (negative), said he has bronchitis and an ear infection. They gave us a nebulizer for breathing treatments & an antibiotic prescription to use at our discretion (basically, they gave it to us b/c it was late in the week and they didn't want me to need it over the weekend and not be able to get it).

He HATES the breathing treatments. He screams. And screams. And screams some more.

Thursday night he woke up coughing a TON, but didn't have a fever all night. tFriday morning he had a 101 fever. And he hasn't had one since!!! I started the antibiotic, just in case. I'm just tired of him being sick, and I'mtired of him feeling terribly.

Today, he's acting normal, eating well, playing, no fever. I'm SOOO Happy. He's lost a ton of weight. His clothes that he'd basically outgrown fit again. It's kind of sad, but I know he'll gain it back now that he's feeling better. He still coughs and has a runny nose, and we have to continue the drugs and nebulizer for 5 more days, but he's definitely on the upswing.

Poor, sad baby boy.