Christmas Eve certainly did not go as planned at our house either. We had planned on a relaxing morning then church followed by a nap and then the traditional Christmas Eve with the Rupp's. But we didn't get to do any of the above. Ben started showing signs of a cold a few days before but we thought it was just a typical cold. But on Monday his fever was still climbing and he was starting to get a cough. Ben's doctor was closed for the holiday but luckily Vince's sister Angela who is a nurse practitioner was working so she told me to bring him down to her practice. She even snuck us in the back door so we wouldn't have to wait in the over flowing waiting room. I figured she would look in his ears and listen to his lungs and would say...yep just a cold. But that's not what she said. First off he had a ear infection in his right ear (this was his first ever ear infection). Then she said we needed to check him in because he needed a breathing treatment asap followed by a chest x-ray. Holy Shit. He did great with the breathing treatment but the x-ray was horrible. He was hysterical. It was awful. But thankfully it only takes a minute. When the x-rays came back she told me it was pneumonia. Again-Holy Shit. I am so thankful that I listened to that "mommy gut feeling" and took him to see Angela or we could have spent Christmas Eve or Day at Children's Mercy. Thankfully Vince got to the pharmacy before they closed to get all his medicine. Thankfully once we started to get the medicine in him and stated the breathing treatments every 4-6 hours it seemed he was starting to feel better.
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