Jonathon is finally here for his mid-fall visit. He arrived safely by train this morning. It's so good to have him here, even if it's only for 10 days.
In other good news, after only two doses of high-dose amoxicillin, Erich is a new man. I finally found a pediatrician who would see him yesterday. She was very nice and helpful. She said his ear infection is raging (no thanks to the Bactrim from two weeks ago) and she thinks he has a mild pneumonia. She didn't confirm it with a chest x-ray or blood cultures because she said it would cost over $200 for the work-up. But she was worried about him and said he was not yet sick enough to be admitted to the hospital, but was pretty close. Then, after learning that my tonsils had been really swollen yesterday morning, she had the nurse test me for strep (which, thankfully, was negative). The receptionist didn't even charge me for it and said, "we test ourselves all the time for strep and don't pay for it, so don't worry about it." Praise God!!! Now we just have to pray that all will be well, until, at least, November 1st when my health insurance kicks in.
Whew....
3 comments:
Oh hon. . .poor baby. I'm glad J is in and can help give some "lovey" time to poor E! Little darling. . .it's so sad when they are that sick and just try so hard to be happy!
It�s a mother and child (and father) reunion. Yay! But other than that, how horrible for the two of you! You guys have really had it rough; it�s such bad timing that it happened when you were without insurance. Something MUST be done about that, its shameful that it was difficult for you to find a doctor. I'm glad you finally got treatment though. Enjoy your time with J!!
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