Samantha is a lot better

We ended up spending a night in the hospital for pneumonia. She coughed for an hour and seemed like she was having a hard time breathing. I told Ron I wanted to take her to the ER. He felt that it could wait until morning. I felt that it couldn't. We took her. I'm so glad we did. She was wheezing and wasn't getting enough oxygen in her blood. She got a one-hour albuterol breathing treatment and didn't improve. They admitted her for the night. She got a four-hour breathing treatment, then a treatment every four hours after that. By 5pm the next day, she had stopped wheezing and her oxygen saturation was up to 98% (compared to 91% when she was admitted.) They discharged us with antibiotics to treat the pneumonia. They told us that her lungs were inflamed and to expect the cough to stick around for 2 to 4 weeks, but she should be able to return to her regular activities in a few days.

It's been a week and she has completely stopped coughing. She's doing great!