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Dear Greyson,

Buddy, you sure do like to scare your momma senseless you know that? You have pneumonia, severe in your right lung, mid-line in your left. You ran a fever most of the weekend starting Saturday night, over the day Sunday you had a couple of high fever spikes and started coughing, a lot. This morning you were still feverish so off to the Dr. we went. I was told they were going to do a breathing treatment in the office, and see if you sounded any better at all after. If not, hospital bound we were. You did your treatment and our Dr. said that you sounded a little clearer, but not much and sent us for chest x-rays. She gave momma your "in-home" care directions but said depending on the x-ray we might be hospital bound yet.

The tech took processed your images and her first words were, "Are you headed back to the Dr or going straight to the hospital?"

My heart sank and I kinda wanted to throw up as I mumbled, "we were supposed to go home and wait for the Dr.'s call, are his lungs really bad, do I need to go to the hospital?"

She replied with, "Oh, well I can't say, but I'll send these to your Dr. right now, so please go straight home."

I cried all the way home....

Not in the door more than 15 minutes and the phone rang... "Heather, he's a pretty sick little boy, but I think you can keep him home. I trust that you will do his Neb treatments every 4 hours and keep a close eye on him, and if anything, anything at all changes for the worse, you call me and/or go straight to the hospital."

We go back in 48 hours for a re-check including x-rays... that is as long as thing's don't get worse and we stay out of the hospital.

You took a nice nap this afternoon and have not left the couch, that's how I know you truly are so sick, even at some of your sickest moments, you like all kids, still want to get up. When you try to get up, you get dizzy and weak and sit right back down. My poor little peanut...

Please feel better and get better soon baby. While momma loves all the snuggle time we're getting, I don't love it at the cost of you feeling so poorly...

Love you,
Momma

P.S. - to make the day even more exciting?!? You lost your front top big tooth tonight!! It's your 5th lost tooth and right now you have 1.5 still missing on the bottom and now the missing one on top and the other front top one is hanging on by a thread... You did your best to give me a big gap toothed smile tonight... Such a trooper you are. I love you!