We have not been able to kick this crud!!! On Monday night my baby boy was pretty bad and we did not get a lot of sleep... a couple of hours at most. Then last night he started his "croupy" cough again and this time I decided I had had enough and called his doctor's exchange and from what the doctor could hear of my baby over the phone he told me to try the humidifier and if that did not work, which he did not think that it would, to take him into the hospital for a treatment. So.. we did the humidifier and then he took a warm shower with me to try and help it out, and finally I decided that I had had it and we took him to the ER to get a treatment. I have to say that Croup is a shitty thing for a kid to have!!! My older 2 never got croup, but my younger 2 do. My parents come over to watch the older 3 and hubby and I took baby boy to the hospital, we arrived around 8:45, we waited for close to 2 hours and finally I was to the point I was pretty ticked off, my son was crying, did not want to be held, did not want to walk around and was crying, well if you have ever experienced croup you know that being upset worsens the condition. So I walk out to the front desk and ask the doctor that was standing there how much longer it was going to take, my son is having issues breathing and I am NOT happy. I know what is wrong with him and want to get him the treatment and be done with it!!! Luckily the doctor standing there heard my son crying and said that he would get him in now and would take care of it... so 2 minutes later he comes and gets us and tells me that he has already talked to the pediatrician and he will be in to see us before he gets to anyone else and take care of him. It was amazing!! The respitory technician comes in and listens to my son's lungs, then as he was finishing the nurse walks in to do his thing and as he was still checking him out the doctor walks in.... how awesome is that??? They already had the nebulizer waiting and was waiting to check him out before deciding which treatment to give him... luckily it was just the steroid treatment and not the epenephrine treatment (which I had no idea about, never seen it done) they got it done and we were out of there by 11:30.... I hate hospitals, I hate going to ER's, I wish that there was a way to give treatments at home, and be done with it.... luckily he took the steroid with just a little fight and was asleep before we even left the hospital and managed to sleep through the night. Of course I did not get as much sleep, being the over-worried mother that I am, he slept with us, I should say ON me, and was breathing MUCH better. He had to sleep sitting in an upright position so it sucked for me, I was watching over him most of the night, making sure that he WAS breathing and now am exhausted!!! Now, if we can just make it through tonight he should be fine, he should get over it with little issues... ahhh... the joys of parenthood :o)
I do have to say that I will love it when I manage to get my bed back :o) I like my sleep and I like my bed without any children in it :o) Ok, I think that I am done complaining :o) I did add a few pics of him sleeping... there is nothing like a sweet baby sleeping :o) Hopefully I will be able to talk about something else soon!!! But for now I have to plan something for dinner!!