We saw the nurse, but he wanted NOTHING to do with her. He started crying which made his wheezing worse and he threw up twice. The doctor came in and immediately ordered a nebulizer and oral steroids to open up his airway since he was having difficulty breathing. Of course all the equipment comes in and he is hysterical because he does NOT want the nurse to touch him or have anything on his face (nebulizer) or to take any medicine. I calm him down a bit and was finally able to get the nebulizer on which helped a ton. He started to relax and his breathing got significantly better. They gave him the oral steroids and we did the nebulizer for another 20 minutes.
The doctor diagnosed him with a moderate case of croup.
It was a scary experience. He has never been that sick before. They ordered us home with a prescription, and said if he got worse he needed to go to the ER. Fortunately, that ER visit never happened. We just stayed at home for a few days monitoring his temperature, putting water in his humidifier, doing steam showers, administering medication, checking on him while he slept, and watching a lot of movies.
Thankfully, he was much better after about a week. Because of all the sickness, the whole bottle weaning went down the drain! He wasn't eating very much food, so the only thing he was getting while sick was milk (in a bottle) and water. We are going to try again starting next week now that Logan and I are feeling better too (yep, we both ended up getting colds).
I hope no one ever gets croup or have to deal with a child that has it. It's no fun.
This makes me all the more excited for summer to come. We need to get out of this sick season once and for all!
This was a common scene. Sleeping in mom and dad's bed.
And falling asleep on the couch while watching shows on the iPad.
Lots of coloring happened too.
This was the first night he slept soundly after days.
Must have been because dad let him pick out his jammies.
