Well, an infection was confirmed, but my breathing is actually good enough (compared to a month ago, as measured through a peak flow meter - if you don't know what that is, you breathe out as hard as you can through a tube, and it measures lung capacity. a month ago when I was really sick, it was about half what it is now) that the doctor this time said try a 5 day antibiotic treatment, skip the prednisone this time, and call her next week. The best part is, the pills came out to $10. Much better than before.