Lower Lobe Pnemonia

Almost a week from going to Camp Boggy Creek Taylor starts having a deep chest cough with no other symptoms. After a few days of the cough not getting any better we take her to the doctor to see whats going on. We had to leave and go get x-rays and as it turns out Taylor has Lower Lobe Pneumonia. I felt so bad for her with the fevers and the cough that won't go away she is miserable.

All week we told Taylor that depending on how she felt, she may not get to go to camp. We watched her and with no fevers we decided she could go. Everyone was aware that she needed to take it easy at camp but that she should be doing better after 4 days of antibiotic.

Saturday we left for Gainesville and Taylor was so excited about going to see all her friends. The one thing that Taylor hadn't done since she was sick was run around and act normal and of course when she got there she was playing and having a good time. Right before they started getting on the bus Taylor started getting tired. I kept feeling her to see if she had a temp but she felt normal. My gut said that she needed to stay home but I know she wanted to go. So of course we let her go and she did great getting on the bus without crying for the first year. I was glad she was fine and it was a long 2 hour ride back because I was missing her and worried about her all at the same time.

After being home for about 2 hours I get a phone call and its Dr. Sue at camp. She says Taylor was running a fever of 102.4 and they wanted to send her to the hospital for x-rays and blood work. Of course we got back in the truck and drove down to Camp Boggy Creek, 4 hours away. We got there and of course she is feeling better cause her fever went away. We still brought her home and by the time we got home at 1 in the morning she was running another temp.

We are on day 6 of antibiotics and she still continues to run fevers on and off and they are just high enough to make her sleepy and not feel good. I'm hoping to get her back into doctor to just make sure we aren't missing anything and that we are on the slow road to recovery.