Be careful what you wish for
Dan worked all day Saturday and I felt bad his weekend was so short. I wished we could spend more time together. How about almost two days in a tiny hospital room watching our baby struggling to breathe? I do not recommend this as an activity for couple bonding. Adam came down with a fever on Sunday that reached 102. I took him to the doctor the next day and they diagnosed infections in both ears and sent us home with a prescription for antibiotics. That night he started sounding congested and had a lot of trouble sleeping. By morning he was wheezing so I called the doctor’s office and when they heard him they told me to come in immediately. I was still in my pajamas so I threw on some clothes, ran a comb through my hair, and bundled him into the car. The doctor took a listen and started him on oxygen, then called an ambulance for a trip to the hospital. It was a pretty bad case of the croup. They had to give him an additional breathing treatment in the ambulance and three more once we were in the emergency room. It’s pretty scary to watch paramedics strapping your tiny child to a huge ambulance gurney; you realize this is for real. It was never life threatening but he was a pretty sick little boy. We were admitted and I sat in a rocker for hours in my dirty jeans and stringy hair watching the monitor numbers rise and fall with each breath. He started to improve pretty quickly and by yesterday morning he was bouncing around trying to play with all the buttons on the bed. His appetite reappeared today and he’s got a twinkle in his eye again. Whew.
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Oh no! Hope he is feeling much better now. Little kids seem to go down so quickly, then they bounce back just as fast… amazing!