Jonah is just one of those kids.

If you were in IL with us, you will remember how very, very sick he was, and you are likely to remember how sick you were when you caught the bug.  Jonah's complications ended up as pneumonia, and ever since then he has had a lingering cough.  A couple weeks ago his lingering cough started sounding more like a whooping cough (which he had two years ago), so we took him to the doctor.

Well, the poor kid had pneumonia again.  Fortunately, we caught it very early so the antibiotics were able to do their job in short order, and the pneumonia is gone for now.  Friday morning he had his routine follow-up.  No problem, right?  I timed everything perfectly.  I put Simon down for a nap minutes before we left.  Anna's babysitting job was pretty easy while we were gone.  She had to exist and feed herself lunch.

The appt started out just fine until Jonah had to have a finger poke to draw a little blood.  He always struggles with getting blood taken, and he often faints.  He started turning white during the poke, so he laid down and everything seemed to be going OK.  The lab lady left the room and Jonah laid down recovering while we waited for the results.  

All of a sudden he grabbed his head and cried in pain.  Then his eyes rolled back into his head and his whole body tensed, completely stiff.  Then he went limp and fell off the examining table.  By then I was scared and crying, but I managed to grab his top half and pull him back onto the table.  While holding onto him I opened the door and yelled, " HELP!  Someone help me."  Some poor lady in the hallway panicked when she saw and heard me, but, ya know, we needed help.  It felt like forever before the nurses came, but they did come and they were able to get him to open his eyes again.  Jonah was just wiped out.  We had to wait another 45 minutes (including a short nap) before he was well enough to stand and walk out.

And this, my friends, is why I usually have to hold Jonah down on a cot when he gets his blood drawn.  And this is why he has had to be wheeled around in a wheel chair after blood draws.  The poor kid just can't handle it.  How awful.