The Visit

Our visit was brief but it was nice to see everyone. I figured we logged in just over 2,500 miles. Saturday we drove to Diane's (that was 9 hours), Sunday we drove to SC (that was 15 hours), Monday we visited. Tuesday was a crazy day. I noticed Kevin was having labored breathing and since he had pneumonia once before, the breathing and his 102+ fever, made me think I needed to have him checked out. For Kevin, the signs are subtle but if you know what you are looking for, you know when you need to have him looked at and when you don't. The plan for that night was for the adults to go out to a Japanese Steak House (the ones where they cook at your table)... I had started a migraine earlier and figured I'd have that checked out too, I didn't need that lingering with the trip coming up... so off we went to the Urgent Care facility. Unfortunately, the Urgent Care didn't take our insurance so we went to the ER. Kevin had an x-ray and I had a CT scan. Turns out Kevin did have pnuemonia in the Lower Left Lobe. My CT scan was clear. They did a few nebulizer treatments for Kevin... and I had a bag of fluids and some drugs to take care of the nausea/vomiting and the pain! Grandma came to help out and then we were on our way home. Next morning, we packed it up and headed home. It took us so long last time that this time we slept over in Virginia and got home on Thursday. After dropping Diane off, I headed over to Mom and Dad's house in PA and stayed there for 4 days so I could do Kevin's nebulizer treatments without having to stop somewhere... we did some fun things and then headed home the following Tuesday just in time to get Eddie to the first night of track.