1ST ER TRIP

Ugh. Thursday night I got out of work early cuz I was so tired. I came home did a few things and went to pee before bed. The damn toilet starts over flowing. Its never happened before in all the time Ive lived here. Determined not to wake Steve up, Im trying to take care of this myself but even the plunger isnt working, and now I can hear it leaking to the basement. Great. So while Im cleaning up this mess, I hear Ryan gasping for air and hacking like a cat with a hairball. I go flying up to his room, and I pick him up. Im not even sure he was awake, but he was having trouble breathing. It was so scary. I woke up Steve and at this point Ryan was awake and acting his normal self, happy, playful, no fever, just his breathing was labored. I called the pediatrician and they said sounds like Croup. Give him a steam shower and she would call back in a half hour and check on how he's doing. We did that, and it didnt help. She called back and told us to bring him to the ER for a dose of steroids to open up his airways. So in we go to Hartford Childrens Hospital. We were there until about 4am. Ryan awake this whole time and in good spirits, flirting with all the staff. They diagnosed him with Croup and gave him a steroid. I say that as if it were that quick, we were there for 4 hours! The whole ordeal was just terrifying watching the poor kid have trouble breathing and nothing I can do to help him. It was also so out of the blue. He was fine leading up to this. No cold, flu, fever, runny nose, cough, NOTHING. Not even slugish. His regular normal self, then wakes up and cant breathe. Needless to say last night (Friday) he slept for 14 hours! From 630 pm-830am. Now he seems to have the cold following the Croup. My poor baby! Hopefully thats that last ER visit ever!