November is only half over and we already have our first illness of the winter. Alison came down with a cold earlier in the week on Tuesday. She had testing that day as well as having it be her first day of phy ed for the semester which meant she was getting her locker assignment. Against my better judgement I let her just take some ibuprofen and go to school. By the end of the day she had a fever of almost 102. So she stayed home Wednesday and Thursday.
When Kris got home from work Thursday afternoon, Ali's temperature was over 104, so Kris called the doctor. She was able to get the last appointment of the day at around 7:40 PM. Her doctor said he heard her coughing in the waiting area and that she didn't sound good. He listened extra long to her lungs and ordered a chest x-ray because he thought he heard a touch of pneumonia and wanted to make sure. He looked at the x-ray and said it looked suspicious, but he couldn't tell for sure and the x-ray tech had gone home for the day and wouldn't be able to read the film until morning.
Kris got the call the next day that Alison did indeed have pneumonia again. I think that is the 4th time in the last five years she has developed pneumonia. One other thing the doctor said was that he thought he heard a touch of asthma in Ali's breathing, and that it isn't uncommon to develop it because of the pneumonia scarring the lungs a little bit. So that is something we will have to keep an eye on. The tech that Kris talked to also told her that unfortunately the more you get pneumonia, the more susceptible you are to it. So now we'll have to be very careful every time that Alison gets a cold to make sure it doesn't develop into pneumonia again.
As of this morning, though, her fever is gone and she is feeling much better after having a couple of days of antibiotics in her system. She still has a cough, but hopefully the inhaler and antibiotics will help clear that up quickly.
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