Turn Your Head

Omar's fever and cough turned out to be pneumonia.

You know, it's weird. I'm watching "pretty boy" Mike Fisher
talk about his faith and how his mom would remind him when he was injured and bummed about missing a game that God doesn't make mistakes.

Well you know what? I think hiss mom new what she was talking about.

On Saturday I took Omar to the Drug Store and had a pharmacist help me pick out the right cough medicine for him. It wasn't until we got home, put our PJ's on and were ready for bed that I discovered that we were given ADULT cough medicine. I also noticed he had a raspy – gurgly - wheezy sound after coughing. I gave him a shot of my asthma pump just in case, he didn't get any better, nor did he get any worse.

The following day I went to purchase the correct children's cough medicine and mentioned the slight wheezing sound I noticed the night before when administering a half dose of the adult medicine (which just about turned Omar inside out - a face I'll not soon forget - menthol and a seven year old don't mix). Anyhoo, this second visit to the Pharmacy gave us the opportunity to get more advice about his condition and it was recommended that if the gurgly / wheezy sound returned, to bring him to the doctor to get it checked.

Sure enough, same time the following night, coughing began and the raspy- wheezy -gurgly sound...Fast forward to the chest x-ray and there it was, a large opaque area on his right lung, just where the doctor heard it.

He's on antibiotics now, grandma watched him today and he's doing alright - but the cough is pretty bad. I'll have him sleep with me again tonight so I can keep an ear on him.