I have never been so scared in my life. I'll make this short as I am exhausted but wanted to let you know. Emma had been feeling very odd the past few days and last night she was very sick. She had lost her voice the day before and I could see she was struggling to breath but did what I could to ease it. So last night we put her in the cot beside us in bed so we could monitor here. I am kidding you not, every breath in and out scared the shit out of me. So at 2am it finally scared me so bad and James too, that I packed her up to go to the hospital.
We got there and waited for almost 2 hours before we even got into the emergency room, once there it was many hours in there as well. But luckily as soon as I got to the ER, she started getting very ill. She had a huge fever that started, got a HUGE rash on her face and her breathing got worse. The Doctors finally saw her and gave her some steroids to help her throat get less swollen, some ventelin in a mask that emits some puffing medicine and some Tylenol for her raging fever.
Medicines went in fine (i did catch some pics on my phone) but the fact that once she was given Tylenol, her fever got worse, the doc sent her for x-rays to rule out pneumonia. So Emma gets up, throws up all over the place, sends us back to "going home no where fast"... and we are in a re hydration schedule now.
It was such a long day and so many stories. Long story.. x-rays show no infection, thank god, and she ended up having a CROUP attack. Almost 6 years old and Croup.
Never been so scared in my life....
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February 09, 2007
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I hope she's doing better! There's nothing worse than having your babies hurting! :(
Posted by: Amy Ragland | February 12, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Oh my :o( Seeing her with that mask on is heartbreaking Ari! I would have been terrified too, that was us when we had William in when he was 2!
Posted by: Janine Straf | February 14, 2007 at 12:39 PM