Flashback Photo of the Week

One year ago Ryan gave his Mommy and Daddy the biggest scare ever. He was sick with his first cold, but Mommy and Daddy did not realize how sick. When calling the doctor to see if there were anything we could do for him, they insisted that we head right away to the emergency room based on his symptoms. We took him to the ER (still thinking he was OK) and found out he had a partially collapsed lung and pneumonia. He was admitted and stayed for 4 days. Ryan endured breathing treatments every four hours, a feeding tube and constant poking and proding.


Ever since those days, Ryan has received a daily steroid treatment and been through a lot of colds (some not to bad, some horrible). He has also been back to the ER, thankfully for only a short trip because of his breathing. Thankfully he has been very good about the whole thing and the colds really don't bother him. This past winter he got a lot fewer colds than the previous. Hopefully this spring his doctor will take him off the breathing treatments.

This picture was day 2 in the hospital. Mommy and Daddy didn't hold Ryan as much as they would have liked to because there were so many tubes and wires. This was a time that Mommy was happy to snuggle for just a little while.