Not Again!

So Chance started coughing again pretty bad on Wednesday so we took him back to the doctor, he was actually already going for a follow-up for his last round of pneumonia. Doctor Joe was not happy with the sound of his lungs and sent me over Stat for a chest x-ray. For anyone who has had to put their little ones through one of these procedures they know how heartbreaking it is. They sit the babies up in this horrible plastic brace and squeeze it around them as tight as they can get it. My son who rarely cries, let me know right then and there how well his lungs worked, pneumonia or not. The look on his face tore my heart right out of my chest. He looked at me as if to say, "Mommy, why are you letting them do this to me?"

Here is a picture I found online of a poor baby (who looks remarkably happier than Chance did) in the x-ray brace.

After the x-ray I headed back to the doctor and waited for the results. Sure enough, it was pneumonia round two. We thought we had kicked it's butt but low and behold we were wrong. The doc gave Chance a shot of steroids to open up his lungs and back we went on the Antibiotics, Steroids and Nebulizer treatments.