I was hoping that we would be past all the sickness by now, but instead we spent the weekend in the hospital with Chase. Between Friday night and Saturday morning Chase was having a coughing fit. Emilie checked on him and decided to give him some medicine because he had a fever. Shortly after taking the medicine he began coughing so hard that he gagged, thus expelling his medicine. Emilie became concerned when she noticed blood mixed in with his recently evacuated medicine.

Emilie took Chase in to have him checked and they performed a barrage of tests on him. He was negative for flu or H1N1, but they found that he had double ear infections and bilateral pneumonia. He was finally admitted to the hospital on Saturday afternoon. Emilie spent most of the day with him and then I spent the night with him.

I missed the insertion of the IV, but according to Emilie it took four nurses to help hold him down long enough to get the IV in. He was very cooperative and brave after that, but by Sunday morning it was apparent that he had had enough. Although he toughed out the breathing treatments, he finally said no to having his blood pressure checked.

Chase was released shortly before noon yesterday and has been doing quite well. He hates taking his medicine - sometimes he tortuously bears it and other times we have to force it down. His mood is still quite cranky, but his appetite seems to be getting much better.

Jaxon and Mason are recovered, but Bryce still has a lingering cold. We're just hoping everyone gets better by Christmas.