Will This Ever End?

Last night was one of those nights. I was going back and forth trying to decide if I should take Carson to the ER.He was breathing fast accompanied with some weird crackling noise. So I debated. What if I go and he's fine? It's at least a 6 hour ordeal once you get there. What if I don't go and he gets worse? I called the nurse on call and she was debating with me. She was having me hold the phone up to his mouth to count his breaths. The first time she did it she told me to go. His breaths were over 70. The second time she did it she told me she got 45. Pretty normal. She left it up to me. Aaarrrrgh!!! I decided to stay home and watch him like a hawk for the rest of the night. This morning I took him into his regular Dr. She tested him for RSV and whooping cough and then sent us for a chest X-ray. She called me back this afternoon to say that he had a dark spot on his lung where the mucus was so thick it had actually clogged that part of his lung to where no air was getting to that part of his lung.She consulted a pulmonary specialist because he is so young. The specialist seemed to think that he was ok because he wasn't running any fever. So it's back to breathing treatments 3-4 times a day, accompanied with some "thumping" on his back to break up the mucus. He is on an antibiotic so even though he may be in the first stages of pnemonia my Dr. is confident that the antibiotic will take care of it. So I am back to my question, Will this ever end? Please please pray that it does!