Sickness recedes

Well, the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be shining quite
brightly now. Logan's 4-5 day sickness spell has finally receded, but
not before a giant wallop just yesterday. After a rough Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday night consisting of little sleep for any family member,
Logan managed to stay in slumberland for the most part all night last
night (and seems to be doing the same tonight... knock on wood). Both
Dad and Mom have spent countless hours sitting in the recliner with
Logan, letting him fuss and cry and whine and cough and wipe his nose,
among other things. Yesterday was so bad for poor Momma, (while Daddy
hid away from it at work), that she took Logan to the base doctor.
Logan was so inconsolable that he would flop himself against the ground,
want to be picked up, want to be let down, want water, didn't want
water, scream, yell, cry his head off, not eat, and then repeat. The
base doctor and nurses there indicated that someone Logan's age would
generally not act that way for attention as Logan is not old enough to
know what that means and so they were genuinely concerned for him. They
suggested we take him the emergency room at the hospital, which we did.
By the time Dad got to the hospital, Mom and Logan were in getting
x-rays of his chest. Upon his return, the ER doctors indicated that all
was fine and well, with just a bit of inflammation appearing in his
lower lungs. But his breathing, ears, mouth, temperature, et al were
a-ok. They were guessing it was all a small viral infection that just
needed time to resolve (no meds or anything to alleviate even the
symptoms). Dad was a bit perturbed that there was nothing for his
symptoms, not even something to stop the runny nose, which was helping
to ensure Logan's lack of sleep. This especially when he had given
Logan Tylenol Children's Flu medicine and this helped Logan sleep for
3.5 hours the previous night. But they assured Dad and Mom that no
medicine would help him in this case. Perhaps it was coincidentally the
end of Logan's sickness when they saw and inspected him, as it was true
his temperature and everything was coming back to normal. But we are
pleased to say that he is better now! After leaving the hospital, we
drove around for a while as Logan had calmed down, but was so zonked
from the day's events that he crashed and so we didn't want to chance
him waking and getting riled up again at home. It was nice though,
after four days, to finally relax again and it gave us the excuse to go
looking at houses in the town in the hopes that if we submit a request
for a house move, that we'll get something halfway decent. Now if only
Logan's congestion would ease up, then perhaps Daddy could sleep. Logan
has a horrendous heavy and loud breathing noise as he sleeps because he
doesn't understand that you can also breathe through your mouth... the
nose is not always required, especially when it is all stopped up!