What comes up...must come down

So now Tyler is pretty sick. He has had a cold for a couple weeks and got a little worse last week. When I took him to the doctor, she said that he probably got a new bug, but he didn't have an ear infection or anything that she needed to do for him. So then Wednesday, Tyler's cough got really bad. He has coughed all day and night since then. So today I decided to take him in to make sure that their wasn't something that had developed since the last time I took him in to the doctors. Well, come to find out the he has an ear infection and his oxygen was low, so they gave him a breathing treatment while we were at the doctors. He thought that maybe he had pneumonia, but after x-rays he saw that he has a mucus chunk in his lung. So they gave us a prescription for the ear and told us to do some of Josh's breathing treatments on Tyler.

Tyler does not do medicine. He hates taking it and when we have to give it to him we end up pinning him down and gagging it down his throat. Then he normally spits or throws most of it up. So while doing this today, Tony decided that we had had enough. So he called the doctor and made an appointment to just have them give Tyler a shot instead of doing the liquid antibiotic. It is three days of getting one shot a day vs 10 days of 2 doses daily with the liquid medicine. So the nurse said that this type of shot hurts a lot more then other shots, so too bad for Tyler. The doctor wanted us to bring him in again tomorrow just to get checked so he will be able to get is second shot tomorrow and then go again on Monday and then it will be done. So I guess that will be good to have it all over.

Josh is still doing better. Still has a cough, but besides that is really great. We are still doing breathing treatments on him, but we don't have to do it as much and, hopefully, in a couple of days we can stop doing the treatments because he will be all better. We really need us all to just get better. We definitely don't appreciate being healthy until we are sick. Tony and I were going to go out on a date today to celebrate Valentine's Day and my birthday, but now we are just sitting home with sick kids. Happy Valentine's Day to us!