Things Are (Hopefully) Looking Up

I'm going to say, with VERY cautious optimism, that things are getting better. We had the last of the shots from hell today, and Will did amazingly well. I mean, he cried, obviously- you would cry too if someone was shooting liquid flames into your leg. But he only cried for a minute, and he didn't freak out the minute we walked in the door of the doctor's office (though he did whimper a little). And the shots have done their job and cleared up his nasty ear infection.

He's still coughing up a lung on a several-times-daily basis, so our pediatrician sent him to have a chest x-ray just to rule out lower-lung pneumonia. That meant another fun-filled trip to St. Mary's, but thankfully the x-ray showed no signs of pneumonia. He's just still got a ton of congestion that's making him cough. The good thing is that he doesn't have to take any more antibiotics. The bad part is that we're doing every single thing we can possibly do, and we just have to wait it out.

Will was pretty wiped out after this morning's adventures in medicine, but not too wiped out to go to Walmart to get a new Elmo movie. I promised him I'd buy him a new one since he's been such a tough, brave boy through those nasty shots. In fact, he's been so tough and so brave that I bought him two new Elmo movies! I'm hoping that he'll keep on improving steadily and we can put this crappy month of sickness behind us. And then everyone has to stay well for a while. Seriously- has to- Mommy can't take any more!!!