Sick

Last week Elinore came down with a mild case of pneumonia. It started out as a cold and quickly developed into a cough and fever. Once the fever started I took her to the doctor's office to discover that she was just developing pneumonia in her right lung. You could tell she didn't feel good, but she wasn't acting really sick, so I hadn't been all that worried. After about 48 hours on the antibiotics she was getting back to her normal self again. On Sunday morning I was playing with her and she started giggling. It was so great!! I realized that she hadn't laughed since she had started with her cold. What a sweet sound.

I was talking with my sister-in-law (Ang), who is a nurse, and found out that pneumonia isn't something that just goes away on its own. That is why it can be so serious with babies and elderly people. I thought about "back in the day" when families would have 10 kids and expect that 3 or so of them would die before reaching adulthood. There are natural things you can do that can help to treat it, but without antibiotics... If we had lived back then our baby might very well have died. It made me so very grateful for the advancements in medicine that we have now.