Visits from the Tooth Fairy and other nightmares

Who would think that loosing your first tooth would throw everyone into a panic.  It is just a regular old rite of passage for every child.  Right?
Sophie doesn't do regular.

Sophie lost her tooth, we think, on Monday at her Child Life therapy program.

 Sophie with her first tooth missing.

Sophie was showing some worrisome symptoms suddenly like choking, gagging and some difficulty breathing while in her therapy program and it wasn't until I noticed her tooth missing when I picked her up that I thought she might have aspirated her tooth.  It was something we had talked to the dentist about before she lost her tooth and they said it was a valid concern, we were to keep an eye on her tooth as it got more wiggly.  Unfortunately Sophie lost her tooth when I wasn't with her and we will never know where that sucker ended up that morning.  We did a full x-ray to see if she had aspirated it but it was no where to be found.  I assume that she coughed it out when it first fell out.

What the x-ray did show was that Sophie had pneumonia. We started her on antibiotics right away but she has become worse and worse over the last 5 days.  Yesterday I decided enough was enough and she needed to be seen again. New x-rays have shown that her pneumonia has become much worse, which explains her terrible state, so we started her on a new antibiotic and prednisone to help with her breathing and coughing episodes.

Sophie fell asleep sitting up while being read to, she was so exhausted.

Passed out with daddy the next day.

She has had such a hard time, it is really hard to watch her go through it.

So many regular parts of childhood play out so differently with my girl.  Who would think that losing your first tooth would be something to seriously worry about, or catching a simple cold, getting your face accidently dunked at the pool, or being able to trick or treat when you can't talk and you can't get up on any porches, getting your haircut when you can't hold still and can't hold your head up well or going for a pony ride.  All little things that can impact a 5 year old's life in different ways.

It's not easy sometimes but we plow on through and hopefully Sophie knows that we do it all for her because she deserves a great life and the fun experiences just like every other child deserves.