Chance Gets Pneumonia (Empyema)
(This post is ridiculously long. I've been writing this nightly since coming to the hospital with Chance. It's proven to be great therapy for me each night and I'm hopeful we'll look back at this as a hard time and rough memory soon. For now it's our reality and we're dealing with so much emotion, this is a great way to help me channel my thoughts and energy and get through this.) About a month ago, Chance spike a fever of 104 degrees. This went on for 8 days as we tried to figure out what was wrong with him. After lots of tests a chest x-ray revealed he had pneumonia. Antibiotics were ordered and everything seemed to clear up quickly and nicely. I was shocked it was so quick! He was back at preschool and soccer after a week and seemed healthy and fine. About 3 weeks later, I started noticing he had an increased heart rate. It was around 134 in the daytime which I knew was high. The only reason we knew this was because I'm crazy and monitor his oxygen all t...
