Sammy Stress!

My 34-year old parrot, Sammy, has been acting strange for a couple days and I noticed last night he was sneezing, wheezing and making weird "cooing noises"...almost like he was in distress or crying gently.
I was up half the night with him on my shoulder in bed, petting and talking to him gently, trying to figure out if I should be worried or not.

He seemed alittle better today but I called the vet and made an apt. for tomorrow anyways.
Sam hasn't been to the vet in years so he is probably due. I think the DR is going to give him a "Vitamin A" shot to boost his immunity too so that should be quite stressful for us both! He has to give it in the neck and I am just dreading putting my poor baby through all that stress of being "toweled", handled by someone else other than me, and then poked in the neck!!!

I can't help but to imagine what I would do if he doesn't pull through this. I think it is human nature to imagine ourselves in such situations and how we would react.
I think I would probably have a nervous breakdown.

I can't imagine not ever being able to bury my face into his fluffy feathers or having him look into my eyes with such love and devotion!
He is the first thing I see when I awake in the mornings and the last when I go to bed at night. Heck, I even uncover him before I turn off the lights to kiss him and tell him "goodnight"!

I was so stressed out from pondering all this today that I ended up getting him out for a 2-hour afternoon nap on the couch!
When I woke up he was sitting on my shoulder, feathers all fluffed up and standing on one leg! LOL!! He looked at me with sleepy eyes as if to say "go back to sleep, Mommy" but it was time to start dinner so I had to get up and put him back in his cage.
He didn't want to go of course. He never wants to leave me anymore.
I am his "world" and he is mine!

{{HUGS}}
Jane