Parenting, just say NO!

I'll get to the heart of the matter right off. If you want unconditional love then have kids. Have lots of them. Have a whole peck of 'em.

But just like in the fables and folk tales and songs of yesteryear every wish has a price. Wish upon a falling star, throw salt over your shoulder, do whatever it takes to ensure your lucky streak but it will end.

Luck is like a one night stand. While you may feel it lasts a lifetime and the pleasure is so good it will never end... it will.

I am the father of a 6 year old and 1 year old boy ( 2 different boys, not one stuck in time travel.)

My 6 year old is in the hospital, as he has been for the past 4 days. He's been sick for well over a week. My wife took him to the emergency room 1 week ago today. They said it was a virus, would clear itself, and not to worry. The doctor I spoke with tonight has a differing opinion. If he doesn't see improvement with tomorrow's x-ray then he's calling in the state specialists. Pnuemonnia in the left lung severe enough to have the two hospitals he's been in both in a state of emergency over him. Calling in the state appointed specialists or whatever you call them. Yeah, you can bet I'm hoping for the best.

Fever of > 100 for over a week.

Fever of > 105 is not uncommon at this point, with or without medicine.
The hospitals have made it clear to me and my wife they are unable to stabilize it through their efforts of every medicine known to man.

The one that worries me is the infection in the left lung that leaves him with only 50% breating capacity. As the doctor said tonight, "This isn't a big pneumonnia, it is a HUGE pneumonnia." I believe he is doing everything he can. He has the boy on a cocktail of antibiotics which is the the first thing the state boys would recommend, per his own admission. He's out of ideas though. short of making him look like a junkie and taking blood from him every half hour before and after the antibiotics he's out of ideas.

Tomorrow is the turning point. If no progress in the x-ray, then we call in the state boys and see what they can offer, if anything.

So to recap....
if You want unconditional love then have a child. But be mentally prepared for the worst at all times because you never know when it might strike. Even in a healthy child that you make wear his bike/skateboard helmet.

My advice:
get a dog.