As I sit here and type my boys are on the floor next to me playing so happily with Legos and I am listening to Brayden count. He loves to count and as of this week he is counting to 13. It is such a great sound to hear them playing together and it has been a missed sound in this house for the past couple of weeks.
The last time I posted was 11 days ago about Brayden's broken collar bone. Well it has only gotten worse, I will back up to a month ago.....
Brayden had a cough like the rest of us a month ago. It had lasted a couple of weeks and there was an outbreak of whooping cough in our school so we went in the be tested. Brayden did not like the pertussis test but it was worth it to find out is was negative. The Dr.'s told me to keep an eye on his cough and come in if there was no change or it got worse.
Then he broke his collar bone and by the next week he was running a fever. I took him in because I was concerned with a broken bone, cough and now a fever. He had done nothing for a week but lay around and that is just not my busy little guy. Well they listened to his chest and were concerned with his left side because he wasn't as active and gave us the diagnosis of pneumonia. We left to go get our antibiotic filled.
Now this was last Wednesday and by this weekend he still had a fever of 101 and we were giving him medicine for his fever and antibiotics that he hated. He would spit the antibiotics right back into my hand and I would have to bribe him with juice just to get him to take them. He wasn't eating and he wasn't sleeping. Then a horrible runny nose along with congestion that was making it hard for him to get any sleep joined in with all the other stuff. He would have none of me using the bulb syringe on his nose after the pertussis test but by Sunday he was letting me a little because he just couldn't breath.
Yesterday morning he woke up screaming because when he coughed it hurt so bad. I had told Sean we were going to the Dr.'s if he still had a fever and sure enough still 101. When we got to the Dr.'s yesterday they were swamped with patients, I never have to wait for my appointments but yesterday we waited 45 minutes. When we saw him my smart little guy Hunter asked him how many Dr.'s they had. He laughed and asked Hunter if it was because they were running behind and Hunter said, "It took you forever!" He laughed and told Hunter that he was a smart guy and then got to checking Brayden out. As soon as he lifted him he commented on how hot he was and how red both of his ears were. He listened to his breathing and then saw how red his throat was. He then sent us on our way with a couple stops to make for tests.
Our first stop was the lab for some blood work. I made Hunter sit outside the room on a chair and the lab tech. gave him some markers for the white board. Brayden was a little concerned about what was going on but he was so lethargic that it made things a little smoother. When they stuck the needle in his arm he got a little upset but I just talked to him about his body and how it makes blood and that they were going to test it to help him get better. He did really good through it and was such a champ. Then my curious child poked his head around the corner with his ears plugged because he was so concerned about his brother. I don't know if he thought plugging his ears was going to help but what he saw made him go white still he so needed to ask the technician what they were going to do with his brothers blood. The technician was very patient with Hunter and showed him all 3 vials and explained what his machines would do with it.
Then onto our second stop across town for a chest x-ray. Now this was a very hard one for me, the machine that they strapped Brayden into was extremely barbaric looking and I had been warned. Once she put him in it I told her about his broken collar bone and that I didn't think it was a good idea. She said we would try it and when she strapped it tight on him with his arms up in the air he started to scream and panic. Right then the x-ray technician that had taken his clavicle x-rays walked in and pulled him out of the machine. He told her that he had just broken his collar bone and we would do it a different way. They had to hold his arms down at his sides and he did not like it but at least I knew it wasn't hurting him. Hunter was coloring and being so good for me outside the room but when we got out there he asked Brayden if he was okay and he told me he could hear him screaming and he looked through the window to make sure we were okay. Such a protective big brother!
At the end of the day we got the call around dinner that Brayden has pneumonia on both sides, his mono test came back negative but they are sending out a more detailed one that we will get back in a couple days. His white blood cell count is elevated but not too high to suggest anything other than the pneumonia and he is very anemic. So the Dr. called in for another type of antibiotic that he is thinking will do the trick, but wants to see us back later this week.
I called Sean and was hoping he could pick up the antibiotic on the way home only to find out that his truck had broken on the way home and he had no steering. So by around 10pm last night we had the new antibiotic in Brayden and Sean's truck had been towed home with a broken steering box.
Brayden woke up once last night at around 2:30am looking for a drink of water. He had no fever and this morning after 12 hours of sleep he woke up smiling, no runny nose, no fever, asking me for a sandwich. The BEST morning we have had in many weeks. He's my tough little guy and as much as I wish he would sit still sometimes, I am so thankful that he hasn't sat still once today!
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