Baby has pneumonia-please help!

[Guest guest]

Just as so many of you here, I have steadfastly refused to vaccinate

my soon to be one year old daughter. And like so many of you here, I

had to stand up to my husband, relatives, friends, colleagues,

pediatrician.... Shelby was born last january 2nd, and never had a

cold until she entered daycars this past September (no surprise)..I

gave her watered down Emergen-C for a while and she was fine...And

yes, everyone always comments on how healthy and happy and

intelligent she is... Flash forward to last week...I pick her up at

daycare and there are red circles under her eyes....then again the

next day..I found out after 3 days of red circles that the daycare

provider has decided to paint her basement playroom! Sand and paint!

In the middle of a NY winter!!!! She was keeping the kids (my baby

and her 5 and 2 year old) upstairs. Fumes rise. (Also the 5 year

old had his flushot the week before..and had stayed home the next

day...) Shelby develops a dry cough...I suspect the paint and am

glad the holidays are coming so I can keep her home....By this past

Satm, her nose was running...ALOT...then by Sunday, she had 103

fever!!! This is her first fever....I read all that Dr mendelson and

others had said about fever....I had a house full of people badgering

me to get her tylenol/motrin SOMETHINg to bring the fever down...I

caved..she was sooooo hot.....She stayed sick Monday...by Tuesday I

brought her to doc..doc said it was a cold..a bad cold...what a

relief!!! Baby played and ate and seemed better...started coughing

again in the night...HERE " s THE PART FOR THIS GROUP- Doc calls me

this morning and says that when she sent us home- SHE FORGOT THE BABT

WAS NON-VAXED= SO I NEED TO BRING HER BACK FOR MORE TESTS!!!!!

WHAT????? Sure enough...a blood count...(14,0000) and a chest x-ray

show she has pneumonia.....Yes, I put her on amoxicillin.....and am

avoiding the fever reducer...but basically, please, please, I'm so

very scared. She's not even a year old, please, if anyone's been

thru pneumonia I would appreciate any advice or comfort you could

give on these special days. And no, I'm not swayed and will still

refuse vaccines. (if anything I regret caving in to pressure and

giving her the Motrin, had I not done so, maybe her body would've

fought off the intial virus...oh-PS_ the babysitters kids are all

SICk with respiratory issues!!!! THANKS AGAIN FOR ANY HELP. Peace.

yvette