Jake has also had a rough few weeks. He has been to the pediatrician 5 or 6 times in the last 2-3 weeks. We also got to try out the Pediatrix After Hours clinic on New Years Day due to a fever. It all started close to the beginning of December with the normal upper respiratory stuff. We were told to watch it and that was that. The next trip we were put on antibiotics for what appeared to be an old sinus infection and told that it probably wouldn't help that much because it was probably a virus. The third trip he was diagnosed with a virus that could be RSV (a bad virus that you have to worry about with young kids, especially preemies) and we started a different antibiotic and breathing treatments. Then he started running a fever and went back to the Dr and was diagnosed with a resistant double ear infection and put on a different antibiotic. New Years Day he still had his fever, that could be held at bay for a couple of hours after being given Tylenol, so we took him to the after hours clinic. They told us that one of his ears looked great and that one looked like it was healing so to keep him on the antibiotics and follow up with the regular Pediatrician if he wasn't better. We made it through the weekend, but he was still running a fever so we went back in to see the Dr. They ran some blood work on him and took a chest x-ray. It turns out he has pneumonia. Poor little man! He had to get two courses of antibiotics via injection at the Dr's office over the next two days. These injections were supposedly super painful, so we off set the pain with daddy's chocolate milkshake. He was also started on yet another antibiotic at home and another medicine for the Thrush he also had due to all the antibiotics!
He is definitely getting better now. He is running around and stomping his feet. Still not eating much, but I hope as he feels better he will start to eat again.
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