Going Out With a Bang

That's what it feels like. Here we are, 10 days away from finishing treatment, and Joshua checked into the hospital last week. Well, we thought we had that problem licked, but he had an appointment today at the clinic to see if his blood counts had rebounded. The appointment went well, so we all went out for lunch together.

Joshua wasn't hungry. Which is unusual. He laid his head on my shoulder during lunch. Then he started shivering. After a trip to get a thermometer at Rite-Aid, we saw that he had a very low-grade fever. So back to the clinic we went.

They heard him cough and ordered a chest x-ray and... wait for it... pneumonia.

Seriously?

Yep.

So he's got some antibiotics and a 48 hour seclusion. Fitting, I guess, to go out like this. So if you need us for the next couple of days, we'll be bunkered up like its Y2K all over again.