Mr. Patient

Wow we've had quite a few days.  Thomas woke up Thursday morning with a croupy sounding cough.  Even when he had the same cough Friday  morning, we just didn't think much of it because it wasn't waking him up at night, he didn't have a fever, and he just really didn't seem that bothered by it.  Saturday morning, though, was a different story.  The cough was still there, but his breathing had gotten really bad overnight.  Our doctor's office had us take him to the ER at Children's, where they diagnosed him with Croup and a complication from it called Stridor, which is an inflamation of the upper airways where it starts to swell shut.

After one breathing treatment, the stridor returned, so they gave him an oral steroid and then followed it with a second breathing treatment.  Luckily that seemed to hold, but they wanted to keep him all day Saturday and overnight for observation.  So there we were, on our hospital adventure!

In the ER, waiting for his 2nd breathing treatment and totally high off sugar from the v8 splash berry blend he stole from me :)

We learned it is VERY hard to keep a 1 year old still and resting in a hospital room

chillin in the bed

check out my cool oxygen monitor, yall

thank God for Disney channel

This was at 5:30am this morning.  We didn't get much sleep

So....we are on the mend.  They discharged T at 10:00 this morning, and we've been taking it easy today.  I'm hoping he gets a great night's sleep with the humidifier keeping him company tonight.  It was a scary 24 hours, especially yesterday morning.  If you've ever heard a kid with this Stridor thing, you know why.  It wasn't like anything I've ever heard.  I'm just glad our little guy's on the mend, as evidenced by dinnertime tonight :-)