Lakeside Pediatrics

31/12/2025

✨ Goodbye 2025, hello 2026! ✨
Lakeside Pediatrics is open today at both offices until 12 PM to care for your little ones.
📅 Closed tomorrow (New Year’s Day), but our team is available by phone for urgent issues.
🩺 We’ll reopen with normal hours on Friday.
Wishing our families a happy, healthy New Year! 🎆

31/12/2025

Good reminder this week ⛄️

Parents — a bulky coat can create extra room in a car seat harness. ❌

Thinner layers provide the same warmth, and the harness will still fit snugly. 🧒✔️

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from Lakeside Peds!
Wishing our patients and families a wonderful day! 🎅🏼❤️🎄

24/12/2025

WE ARE OPEN until 12pm today! We will be closed for Christmas and re-open on Friday ! As a reminder, we are available on call 24/7 for all of your urgent concerns
Merry Christmas Eve! 🎅🏼🎄

24/12/2025

To the parents creating Christmas Eve magic…thank you. ✨🎄

23/12/2025

Holiday reminder that children have the right to set boundaries. Respecting their comfort helps build confidence, safety, and trust. ❤️

23/12/2025

Holiday toy safety reminder from your pediatrician 🎁🧸🎄

Remember: Button batteries are small but extremely dangerous 🔋
If swallowed or placed in the nose or ears, they can cause serious internal injuries in a short time. Keep devices with button batteries secured, store spare batteries safely, and seek emergency care immediately if exposure is suspected.

22/12/2025

🎅 Christmas is almost here! We’re open normal hours all week, Christmas Eve 8am–12pm, and closed Christmas Day. As always, 24/7 on-call coverage for urgent concerns.

21/12/2025

Please talk to your children about va**ng. We are seeing children as young as 8 years old in our office. It’s not too soon to discuss.

He thought he was getting away with it.

LeeRay King was 17, va**ng every day, slipping disposable vapes into his life where his parents couldn’t see. He started at 14, telling himself it was harmless. Everyone did it. It was just v***r.

Soon it wasn’t occasional.
It was constant.

At the height of his addiction, LeeRay was going through four disposable vapes a week—smoking all day, every day. In his room. Outside. Anywhere he could take a hit. He never stopped to think about what it was costing him. He only thought about the next inhale.

Until one night, his body forced him to listen.

LeeRay woke up gasping.

There was a sharp, unbearable pain in his left side, like something inside him had torn open. Every breath felt wrong. Shallow. Panicked. His chest wouldn’t rise the way it should.

His mother saw the fear on his face and rushed him to the hospital.

The scans told the truth immediately.

His left lung had collapsed.

Doctors stabilized him. Everyone hoped it was a one-time thing. A freak incident.

It wasn’t.

His lung collapsed again.
Then again.
Then again.
Then again.

Four more times.

Each collapse stole more air from his body and more peace from his family. Finally, doctors said the words no teenager expects to hear:

Emergency surgery.

They had to remove damaged tissue from his lungs—tissue so weakened it could no longer keep him alive on its own. LeeRay lay there knowing parts of his body were being cut away… parts he would never get back.

When he woke up, the reality became impossible to ignore.

The doctors handed him a plastic bag.

Inside were the pieces of his own lungs that had been removed.

They weren’t healthy pink.
They weren’t normal.

They were completely black.

That was the moment it hit him.

This wasn’t just “va**ng.”
This wasn’t harmless.
This wasn’t a scare.

At 17 years old, LeeRay had physical proof that his lungs were already failing him. Proof that what he hid from his parents had been quietly destroying him from the inside.

He survived.

But parts of him are gone forever.

And now he tells his story not for attention—
but as a warning.

Because addiction doesn’t always look dramatic.
Sometimes it looks like a habit everyone says is safe.

Until you wake up one night
and can’t breathe.

17/12/2025

Flu and RSV are circulating. For newborns and immunocompromised children, limiting gatherings can help keep them safe ❤️

11/12/2025

🎉 Happy Birthday, Dr. Chachad! Thank you for your kindness, dedication, and the bright smile you bring to every day. 💙🩺

11/12/2025

Thursday reminder: You may be on your last straw, but parenting always has bonus levels. 😆