Maya has bronchitis

Maya has had a low grade fever on and off for the past two days. It didn't stop her from going to the zoo yesterday with Tibby,as she had been begging to "go to the farm and see the elephant". So when her fever appeared to have disappeared yesterday morning we agreed to let her go to the zoo. She loved it. But by evening her low grade fever was back. She was still in high spirits though and had energy. So we put her to bed.

About 3 a.m. Maya woke up and seemedto be having trouble breathing. She had short, shallow breaths and complained of generic pain in her belly, though we could not figure out what part of her belly. After about half an hour up with her, her breathing had not improved, and she was unable to take a deep breath, or at least was not cooperating with our requests. She was in a good mood though, singing songs to us through her shallow breaths.

But since Maya is almost never sick, we were a bit freaked out. Well, actually, I think I was the one freaked out. I was thinking, maybe she had appendicitis and the pain was causing her to take shallow breaths. Or maybe it was a collapsed lung or something. Or maybe she had ingested something that was partly blocking her windpipe.

So we got dressed and drove to the emergency room, where for some reason the doctors seemed to think she was a boy. Hello!! She doesn't look like a boy at all! Anyway, they gave her a chest X-ray and a brief examination and diagnosed her with a chest infection, or a minor case of bronchitis. They prescribed us some antibiotics and we were on our way home at 5 a.m.

Maya was super. She cooperated very well on the X-ray, which we told her was a big camera that would take a picture of the inside of her belly. She didn't like it much, and was crying a bit. But she did stay still for the X-ray. Later, though, she did not want the doctor touching her with his stethoscope. But in the end it worked out, and now we are back at home.