Saturday, Elias woke up wheezing and crabby. Super duper crabby. In fact, he wouldn't drink his milk or eat, and cried for about two hours even if we carried him around. He has had wheezing before, but it doesn't usually affect him much.
We took him to Urgent Care around 9:00. Turns out he has an ear infection. He felt better after getting some pain reliever drops in his ears and even had some milk. Unfortunately, he was still wheezing, so we stayed until about 1:30 doing nebulizer treatment after nebulizer treatment (with some chest xrays in between) until his oxygen level was high enough. That is 4 1/2 hours people. All of us were ready to go after about the 4th treatment. I guess following the directions on our box of meds for the nebulizer (1/2 a container every 4 - 6 hours) is just a guideline.
He has a cold and it moved into his chest a little bit (happens quite often). By Sunday afternoon the wheezing had cleared up completely. I know, I know, the doctor was just being thorough. But as Matt pointed out it, we have had more experiences than not where we take Elias in to be checked out and we feel like we become prisoners. Wonder what he'll get next.
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