The doctor said he had a sinus infection and bronchitis. But Hubby was still spiking fevers all through the weekend despite being on antibiotics .
As we were taking a stroll around the block two days ago, Vince joked: "Maybe I have pneumonia, cause I feel so sick." Then he said: "What is pneumonia anyway?"
I said "I'm not sure. It has something to do with the lungs and you can die from it. So I hope you don't have pneumonia."
Yesterday I sent him to the doctor cause his fever was 102 again! They took an X-ray of his chest. Lo-and-behold! A patch of pneumonia on his lung. They gave him broad spectrum antibiotics, and sent him home. He ate, spiked another fever to 104 Fahrenheit, and went to sleep. I'm glad to report that he feels much better this morning. But we won't really know if the antibiotics are doing their job until he has been taking them for 48 hours.
I'm a little scared that this might be a drug-resistant bacteria? After all, it didn't respond to the original antibiotics! I'm also wondering how he got pneumonia? Is it because of the human-lung-powered snot-sucker (nosefrida) we use on the baby? But the fact is that most healthy people do not get pneumonia. Only young children or seniors or people with compromised immune systems get pneumonia! I wonder if this is a sign of something more? It's hard to concentrate on work with this hanging over my head.
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