Fragile little lungs

Well as many of you are already aware, we got a taste of just how fragile our little peanut is. To most of us the common cold is a minor nuisance, but to Brie it is a problem. She started with a little cough on Friday and by Sunday night she was vomiting everything she drank and was dehydrated. We debated taking her to the ER in the middle of the night, but decided to wait it out until the ped opened in the am. Well we were at the peds door at 9 am and were in an ambulance on our way to the hospital before 10 am. Brie's common cold turned into a pneumonia. After 2 days in the hospital on IVs, monitors, and oxygen she is finally home again. She is very tired, but once we got home we saw a few smiles and she even managed to crawl around her room and play with a few toys. Hopefully she will get some good sleep tonight without all of the various tubes, wires and beeps. I guess we will have to go back to our winter isolation. We had become less careful with taking her in public because she enjoys being out, but after this experience we are back to isolation. As for her birthday party we are going to see how she does during the week. If she continues to improve we will still have it, if she is still under the weather is will be postponed a few days.