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Hunter's First Health Scare

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Things have been pretty crazy at the temporary zoo.  On Sunday July 1st, I started feeling unwell.  Really unwell.  Nothing tasted right, I didn't have an appetite and my stomach was consistently rolling.  Mom allowed me to head to bed about 6, and by 10, I was in the bathroom praying to the porcelain god.  It continued all night, and the next morning, I was still not feeling better, AT ALL.  I ended up in the ER getting doped up with Phenergen, and getting IV fluids.  Count this as Day One missed at work. The next day, while I was feeling a tiny bit better, Hunter awoke with a nasty cough.  Not just a small cough. A nasty, noisy, wheezy, take-your-breath-away cough.  I had NEVER heard him like that.  Not only could he not breathe, he couldn't see either.  Both of his eyes were matted shut with nasty green goo. I took him into his Pediatricians office that day to have him evaluated.  She didn't think he had pneumonia, but he had an ear infection in one ear, and an eye inf