Croup

I will start off by saying, everything is fine now.

So yesterday after lunch Audrey suddenly started sounding like a pack a day smoker. The second I heard it I decided to take her to the doctor. They diagnosed her with Bronchitis and gave her a breathing treatment. Well at about 9:30pm last night things started getting bad. She started the barking like a seal cough and was having trouble getting air in. I made the decision to take her to the ER because as a very good friend of mine was saying earlier in the day (unrelated to Audrey) "airways are not something you mess with."

So at 10pm Audrey and I showed up at the ER. I am very lucky to be surrounded by great medical facilities with very little wait. We were checked in and in a bed by about 10:30pm. They diagnosed her with croup and gave her a humidifier and steroids. It was all very scary but the staff was very good and calming and Audrey even managed to doze a bit. We actually ended up with the same doctor that treated Ryan a few months ago when he had a bad allergic reaction. He even remembered me, a sign I live in a smaller town then I thought I did.

They were worried because she wasn't getting any liquids so they wouldn't let us leave until she drank something which she really didn't want to do. Luckily she seemed to realize that she didn't have a choice in the matter and ended up drinking a whole bottle.

At 2am I left the ER with a calm baby who was breathing much better. She is still flemmy and has lost her voice but the emergency feeling of it has gone away. So today we are resting and I am doing my best to make sure that she is getting plenty to drink.