Pink's Life 01092006

Sunday evening proved to be an interesting one.
For the past few days, Marcus has been suffering from a bit of a cold -- sniffles, runny nose, etc. We started to give him some infants' cold medicine (just Tylenol/Sudafed mix, no cough stuff). However, over the past couple of days, he started to cough.
In the middle of the night (or the wee hours of Sunday morning, take your pic), we noticed that he was feeling really warm, so we gave him another dose of the meds. Okay, he ended up sleeping in the bed with us, since he got comfy and all. He felt fine in the morning and throughout the day.
However, when we got home from errands on Sunday afternoon, he felt really warm, and was still coughing. Keep in mind that we hadn't given him any meds during the day since he pretty much felt okay and was his normal self. We took his temperature -- 101.4. Colleen called Pediatric Urgent Care, and got him an appointment for 1930, which was, at the time, an hour away. We bundled him up and brought him in.
The doc checked out his ears and his lungs, and heard something in one of his lungs. Next step: blood draw and chest film. Okay.
Colleen held him for the blood draw, which he didn't like. Colleen stayed with him in X-Ray while he was strapped into a plastic brace (I called it the Plastic Maiden) to keep him still. He was a brave little trooper through the whole thing, even though he fussed and cried through the labs.
We went back up to UC, and was told that he has a small patch of pneumonia. Well, how did he get that? As usual per this time of year, there's a lot of crap and illness going around the air, so he may have just picked something up somewhere. Happens.
He got a dose of antibiotics (one shot in each leg), and he's going back in for a followup and more antibiotics this afternoon.
He was his normal self the rest of the night. He fell asleep in C's arms after a bottle and a small dose (not a full recommended dose) of Benadryl, and slept through the night.
Looks like we caught this one just in time, right at the beginning.

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And so it goes...

This past weekend saw another Worcester institution close its doors for the remainder of time.
Tatuck Bookseller and Sons closed their primary branch on Chandler Street in Worcester.
While this doesn't come as a total shock, it is surprising at the speed at which they closed -- pretty much immediately.

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