The Baby Doctor (Doctor 911 Series Book 7)

The novel is being adapted into a film of the same name , scheduled to be released on January 24, Following the events of The Shining , after receiving a settlement from the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from her injuries. Angry ghosts from the Overlook, including the woman from Room , still want to find Danny and eventually consume his phenomenal "shining" power.

Dick Hallorann, the Overlook's chef, teaches Danny to create lockboxes in his mind to contain the ghosts, including that of former Overlook owner Horace Derwent. As an adult, Danny now going by Dan takes up his father's legacy of anger and alcoholism. Dan spends years drifting across the country, but he eventually makes his way to New Hampshire and decides to give up drinking. He settles in the small town of Frazier, working first at a tourist attraction and then at a hospice , and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

His psychic abilities, long suppressed by his drinking, re-emerge and allow him to provide comfort to dying patients. Aided by a cat that can sense when someone is about to die, Dan acquires the nickname "Doctor Sleep". In the meantime, Abra Stone, a baby girl born in , begins to manifest psychic powers of her own when she seemingly predicts the September 11 terrorist attacks.

She slowly and unintentionally establishes a telepathic bond with Dan; as she grows, the contact becomes more conscious and voluntary, and her shining grows stronger than his.

One night, Abra psychically witnesses the ritual torture and murder of a boy by the True Knot, a group of quasi-immortals, many of which possess their own "shine" abilities, who wander across America and periodically feed on "steam", a psychic essence produced when the people who possess the shining die in pain.

The True Knot's leader, Rose the Hat, becomes aware of Abra's existence and formulates a plan to kidnap Abra and keep her alive, so she can produce a limitless supply of steam. The True Knot begin to die off from measles contracted from their last victim; they believe that Abra's steam can cure them. Abra asks for Dan's help, and he reveals his connection with Abra to her father David and their family doctor, John Dalton.

Angry and skeptical at first, David starts to believe Dan and agrees to go along with his plan to save Abra. With the help of Billy Freeman, one of Dan's friends, they foil and kill a raiding party sent by Rose, led by Rose's lover Crow Daddy; however, Dan realizes that Rose will relentlessly hunt Abra for revenge. He visits Abra's great-grandmother Concetta, who is dying of cancer, and telepathically learns from her that he and Abra's mother Lucy are half-siblings with the same father. As Concetta dies, Dan takes her diseased steam into himself.

Meanwhile, dissension in the ranks of The True Knot, along with Rose's obsession with Abra, leads to the group splitting up, leaving Rose with even fewer followers. Following another kidnapping attempt that Abra foils with Dan's telepathic help, she baits Rose into confronting her at the location where the Overlook Hotel once stood in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, now home to a campsite owned by the True Knot. Dan and Billy travel to the site, while Abra helps them by using her astral projection.

Lying in wait, Dan releases the steam collected from Concetta to the remaining group of True Knot members, killing all of them.

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He frees the ghost of Horace Derwent to kill the last member, Silent Sarey, waiting to ambush him and Abra, and the two fight Rose in a long psychic struggle. With help from Billy and the ghost of Dan's father, Jack Torrance, they push Rose off an observation platform to her death.

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Before leaving the campsite, Dan makes peace with his father. In the epilogue, Dan celebrates fifteen years of sobriety and attends Abra's fifteenth birthday party. He tells her about the patterns of alcoholism and violent behavior that run in his family, and warns her not to repeat them by starting to drink or submitting to rage. Abra agrees that she will behave, but before they can finish the conversation, Dan is called back to his hospice, where he comforts a dying colleague who had antagonized him in the past.

King described the idea for a sequel to his novel The Shining on November 19, , during a promotional tour for his novel Under the Dome. During a reading moderated by filmmaker David Cronenberg at the Canon Theatre , King said the sequel would follow a character from the original, Danny Torrance, now in his 40s, living in New Hampshire where he works as an orderly at a hospice and helps terminally ill patients die with the aid of extraordinary powers.

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I mentioned two potential projects while I was on the road, one a new Mid-World book not directly about Roland Deschain , but yes, he and his friend Cuthbert are in it, hunting a skin-man, which are what werewolves are called in that lost kingdom and a sequel to The Shining called Doctor Sleep. Coughing serves as the method the body uses to keep the airways clear, ridding the throat of phlegm, postnasal drip nasal mucus that drips down the back of the throat , or a lodged piece of food.

This occurs when a baby has a cold or allergies. It helps clear postnasal drip or irritation from a sore throat. This results from a respiratory illness accompanying a bacterial infection.

This causes phlegm or mucus which contains white blood cells to help fight germs to form in baby's airways. Children younger than 4 months don't cough much, so if they do, it's serious, says Catherine Dundon, M. In the winter, if an infant is coughing terribly, it could be respiratory syncytial virus RSV , a dangerous viral infection for infants. Once your child is older than age 1, coughs are less alarming. In most cases, chances are your baby's cough is nothing more than a cold.

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To help you tell a wait-and-see cough from one that demands immediate medical attention, stay calm, listen carefully to the cough, and follow the directions below. Signs and symptoms of a baby cough that may indicate a cold or the flu include a stuffy or runny nose and sore throat. Try your own mother's "lots-of-fluids-and-plenty-of-rest" routine.

Although you may be eager to give baby something stronger to quiet the cough, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against using cough and cold medications for kids under 6 years because studies have shown that they don't work in little kids—and they can have potentially fatal side effects. It's better to stick to natural methods such as honey for babies over a year , saline drops, and a cool-mist humidifier. Acetaminophen is safe to use to reduce a fever, but if your child's temperature is It's likely that she has the flu.

If your baby is 4 months or younger, call your doctor immediately if she has any fever; even a slight fever is serious in infants. The most-telling croup cough symptom is when baby wakes up in the middle of the night with a barking cough the sound is hard to mistake and difficulty breathing. Usually caused by a viral infection, croup makes the lining of the trachea swell up and closes the airways, which is why baby has such a hard time breathing.

You'll hear the seal-like cough when your child inhales not on the exhale.

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Croup typically affects children under age 5 and often begins with a normal cold or sniffle earlier in the day. Croup should clear up in three or four days; if it doesn't, call your doctor. First try to calm your child. Then consider one of the following techniques to ease her breathing:. Croup Symptoms and Treatment. Bronchiolitis comes on after what seems to be a basic cold, with coughing and a runny nose. According to Ruffin Franklin, M. The vast majority of cases of bronchiolitis in babies under age 1 are caused by respiratory syncytial virus RSV. This virus causes a simple cold in kids older than 3, but it can penetrate the lungs of infants and can be potentially life-threatening, warns David Rubin, M.

Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York. The cough or wheezing associated with both bronchiolitis and asthma makes them hard to tell apart. However, bronchiolitis is usually seen in the fall and winter and may be accompanied by:. You can treat bronchiolitis at home once baby's breathing is under control. Give baby lots of fluids, plenty of rest, and a cool-mist humidifier, and always keep an eye on your child's respiratory rate. If it gets too high—50 breaths per minute or more -- your child is definitely in respiratory distress. Bronchiolitis Symptoms and Treatment.

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This life-threatening bacterial infection was a leading cause of infant illness and death until the DTP vaccine was created in the s and the disease was all but eradicated in the U. However, the disease has been making a comeback and there have been outbreaks in many states in recent years. In most cases of whooping cough pertussis , baby has no cold symptoms or fever.

Symptoms of whooping cough include:. Make sure your baby has been immunized, but because babies aren't fully protected until they've received three doses of the vaccine, it's essential that you and all of your infants' caregivers get vaccinated with the Tdap tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis booster. If you suspect your baby is suffering from whooping cough, call immediately. By the time the coughing fits develop, the infant must be hospitalized so he can receive oxygen during coughing spells, according to Ruffin Franklin, M.

Generally, baby—as well as every member of your household -- is also prescribed the antibiotic erythromycin to prevent the spread of this very contagious disease. If the child comes through the initial attack, whooping cough will need to run its course, which can take months. Whooping Cough Symptoms and Treatment. Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a bacterial respiratory infection that might look like a cold at first. Learn more about the symptoms of this serious condition and when you should worry.

Pneumonia is a viral or bacterial infection of the lungs brought on by a number of conditions, including the common cold. Symptoms and signs that your child has pneumonia is a baby with pneumonia will be very fatigued and will have a very "productive" cough, bringing up everything imaginable in the shades of green and yellow. Treatment depends on whether the cause is viral or bacterial, so call your doctor, especially if baby has a fever.

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Bacterial pneumonia is usually more dangerous and is most commonly brought on by strep pneumonae. Pneumonia Symptoms and Treatment. Doctors generally agree that asthma is not common in children younger than 2, unless the baby has had bouts of eczema and there's a family history of allergies and asthma.