Our Baby has Pneumonia

Tyler has been diagnosed with pneumonia. It all started when I was awoken by the crying of my baby boy. I rushed to his room to find him sitting up in his bed and upset that he couldn't find "Raty Rat", his stuffed rat. While he was up, I noticed how hot his temperature was. I asked if he was OK because he didn't look too good and he said his head hurt really bad. So I went and took his temperature using an ear thermometer that we haven't used it years. It gave us the reading of 106.1 degrees, which had to be incorrect, however we knew he was indeed running a high fever. After 10 minutes of monitoring him, we decided to take him to the emergency room. It was about 2am at this point. After taking his information, they took him to the triage nurse where he was weighed (he is currently at 36 lbs) and took his temperature. At this point, it was 101 degrees. The nurse gave him some Tylenol, however he soon brought it up. We changed him into clean hospital jammies and brought him out back to wait for an RN. When she arrived she gave him some more Tylenol, obviously another way and then we headed down to the radiation department for some x-rays. We returned back to our room where we continued to wait and wait. The RN came by again and offered Steve and I some cold drinks, by this time, Tyler had fallen asleep. She carefully took his temperature again without waking him up and which showed it did not change. We waited and waited some more and the physician's assistant came in and checked him over again. Finally the doctor came in. He showed us his x-rays and actually taught us how he reads them which was really interesting. There were some donut whole dots showing up in his left lung, which meant he had pneumonia. The doctor prescribed some medication and gave us some instructions of how to manage his fever with Tylenol and Motrin.

The RN came back in and gave him his first dose of his medication mixed with some orange juice. She warned us ahead of time that it was nasty tasting and that he will have difficulty drinking it. However, she was kind enough to give him two stuffed bears if he drank it all. At first we gave him a straw and he was taking very little sips. We would have been there another 2 days by the time he finished it drinking it that way. LOL So, she gave it to him using a syringe, which worked a lot faster. After that we were finished and could go back home. It was after 4am. We allowed Tyler to sleep in with us because we were afraid he may vomit again. We woke up at 9:30 am and he still had a little bit of the fever and said his head hurt a little. We've been taking it easy today spending the day on the sofa, napping and watching some movies. Please keep him in your prayers for a quick recovery.