Sick...

This story starts last Friday, March 31st. We took Cullen in to the doctor for a sore throat and cough. "Oh, he has an upper respiratory infection and if his throat gets worse over the weekend here is a prescription for Omnicef. You can begin giving it to him twice a day. Be sure to give his H-C Tussan for the cough"
Saturday passed without any indications of him getting worse. Sunday began normally church, Pappadeaux, house looking and nap. He woke up and seemed to be fine. He played and didn't seem to be cranky.
It all fell apart when Cullen arose from his deep sleep. He had a fever of 102.8, a terrible cough and refused to eat or drink. "My throat," was the quote of the night. After being up most of the night, I called in and took him back to the doctor. We did start the Omnicef. By the time we could get in to the doctor his fever had spiked to 104.8. My child was feeling lousy and so were we.
Doctor appointment:"It seems that we are treating everything with the antibiotic. If he has strep throat or a bacterial infection the antibiotic will take care of it so I am not going to do any tests. Give him tylenol and then motrin every three hours for the fever. If he hasn't turned the corner by Thursday give me a call." We were good with this because it was Monday and it had just started.
The rest of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and most of Thursday, we were alternating tylenol and motrin every three hours to keep the fever down to 102. By the way, motrin wires Cullen. It is speed for him. So, when the third hour came late into the night it was not fun.
He would not eat anything. We had to beg, force and let him do whatever to get him to swallow liquids. His diet consisted of popsicles, jello, and gatorade, when he would take it for these days. Cullen turned down all of his favorite junk food. We knew there is a problem.
There was a break in the fever on Thursday and he ate some yogurt. Wow, we are getting better or is it a trick. A trick! Within hours fever back up to 102.8 and he doesn't want anybody to even look at him! His cough was so bad that I had to stand up with him and sit up sleeping so he could breath and sleep without coughing. We are back to the tylenol/motrin thing again.
Friday morning, he had a fever, cough and did not want to drink. We called the doctor again. "Bring him in because he could have some secondary illness that is preventing him from getting well." A chest x-ray and some blood work later, Cullen's illnes is viral. He has large ulcers in his mouth and on his tonsils. It is just taking him longer than normal to fight off this viral infection. He does still have the upper respiratory infection, also. The doctor gave us his cell phone number and his home phone number to call if Cullen gets worse over the weekend. This does not happen often.
We did not take Cullen to Dr. Green. We took him to his pedatrician...