RSV Ain't No Fun! BUM BUM!

Both kids didn't sound very well over the past weekend, so since I had Martin Luther King Jr. Day off of work, I decided to take the kids to the doctor for a check up.  Ayla had been saying that her ears hurt and Jasper had a horrible raspy cough.  After Ayla was checked up, they said that her ears looked fine but that she had tons of wax in her ear canal.  They used one of those plastic light up things to dig out some of the wax, and when they pulled out a huge glob from one of her ears, she looked right at me and said, "BUM BUM!" in some sort of tune.  I cracked up!  I asked her, "Ayla?  Can you hear again?"  and she said, "Yes!"  They went ahead and put her on some bubble gum medicine since she'd had a runny nose for so long and that was that.
But when they checked Jasper, they said that his chest sounded really bad.  They had a feeling that he had RSV which is going around daycare like crazy right now.  They had me do a nebulizer treatment with him in the office which is just like an Albuterol inhaler.  He hated every second of it, but we had to do it in order to open up his lungs and start breaking up some of the stuff in his chest.  They said if we didn't take care of it, then it could turn into pneumonia.  They put him on bubble gum medicine as well and then wrote me a prescription for our own nebulizer machine and the medication to give the treatment.  They told us to do the treatment 2-3 times per day until he sounded better.
By 2 days later, he looked even worse, so I got him in for a late night appointment with a different doctor to have him looked at again.  His cheeks were very red and splotchy and it made me wonder if he was getting enough oxygen in his system.  They said that he still sounded horrible.  We would up his breathing treatments to 4 times per day and change his bubble gum medicine to Augmentin, which is what gives him a really bad diaper rash...but we'll do whatever it takes!  The doctor said that if he didn't seem to be getting any better soon, we would possibly try steroids, and then we would have to put him in the hospital if that didn't help.  Thankfully, the new medication helped and the extra treatments did too.  Within a few days, the Bub started to sound normal again and I'm glad to say that we crossed the hump of another new, and horrible disease.