Walking Pneumonia Again...

Champions in flag football before fever/cough

The last few weeks we've been dealing with a lot of sick kids in our house. As soon as Peyton got over walking pneumonia, we had about a week before Austen started developing the same symptoms. (I give Hailey til next week until she comes down with it.) It starts with a fever that you just can't shake and then it's coupled with this horrendous cough.

Even though I was pretty sure what Austen had by day 2, they wouldn't give him antibiotics for it until day 5 when they could definitively diagnose it by listening to his lungs with a stethoscope. If it's too early, the diagnosis is a cold virus but if you wait a few days eventually the virus will turn into bacterial virus that they can treat with medication. When listening to Austen's lung, the doctor said Austen was more right sided with the pneumonia whereas Peyton had it in both of her lungs. At this point, I was just glad it was in one lung so they could give us the medicine to clear this up, and they did and even after the first dose, he started to feel much better.

Ultimately, Austen missed less school than Peyton (four days for Austen compared with six days for Peyton). Since it was walking pneumonia, they both were still somewhat functional and with an important cheerleading competition and soccer game, they both still competed while sick. Peyton was the front and center stunt group while Austen's game was the last game of the season and he still really wanted to go and his team really needed to win. Somehow Austen played 85 minutes of soccer and scored a goal to help lift his team to a 2-1 victory. I don't know if that makes him tough and determined or makes me a bad mom but I think sometimes even when you are not 100% you have to push through it because your team (work or sports) needs you to do so. 

Anyway, Austen is on the mend and fingers crossed no one else catches it including me!

Sick but ready to play!