Lyric

Little man I sick and all I can think about is where did my baby go? He has been battling a cough for about 6 weeks and of course being the worry wart I am I took him to the dr for him to get checked out. Not only did I take him in, but I called 3 times to make sure a cough for over a month was “normal”. Well after starting to think his pediatrician office was incompetent, I researched and switched to a new practice. Well after waking up to one of Lyric’s coughing spells I decided to call his new doctor and get a second opinion. A quick phone call and 3 follow up calls to Me-Maw, and we were off to the doctor. Thank God Me-Maw was off and could pick up Lyric and meet me at the Dr. Office.

At first the appointment went exactly how his last one did, but then the Dr. said what I knew and felt and had been saying to Tre for weeks…”It’s not normal to have a cough this long, so something is going on”. It seriously took self restraint to not call his previous pediatrician right then, to just say told you so. After an examination and asking lots of questions many of which Lyric answered by himself, we did a breathing treatment.

As I have said before and will say many times throughout this blog, Thank God for Me-Maw. When Lyric saw the contraption he would have to put over his face he lost it and like she always does Me-Maw came to the rescue. Between him sitting on my lap, and Me-Maw rubbing his hands we were able to get him to calm down and even a quick story time.

I seriously thought the breathing treatment would be the end of it but, the Dr. wanted X rays so off to the CHKD outpatient testing center we went. I figured the X-Rays would be easy, anyone who knows Lyric knows he LOVES the camera….but I forgot how still you have to be when taking the x rays. Since I am prego I had to go behind the glass screen and watch as Lyric and Me Maw took pictures. It was quite amusing since my mom HATES getting her picture taken.

Once we were released we were told we would get the results back within 2 hours and sure enough about an hour later the doctor called saying Lyric has pneumonia of the right lung. So off to get more medicine and start the treatment….tomorrow is the BIG day. If there have been no signs of improvement we have to get admitted. I surprisingly am not worried, I know everything is going to work out fine, and whenever I forget Lyric is there to tell me ….out of the mouths of babes :)