Thursday, February 23, 2012

Embrace the E.R.

Lemme walk you through it.
Sunday evening...
The Fella, Yaya, and Eli turned in early to rest up for their 4:00 a.m. departure for the airport.
I stay up watching the Downton Abbey finale.
Nary a symptom to warn me.
Amos wakes up scary wheezing, barking, short of breath.

If I didn't have Nurse Yaya downstairs to whip out the stethoscope and tell me he's breathing enough, there would have been an ambulance in my driveway. 

So I called the Kaiser line and they had me scurry him to the closest E.R., which thankfully is just a stones throw away.

As soon as I carried Amos through those double sliding doors they got him in a bed and no fewer than 8 docs, nurses, respiratory specialists, and the like descended upon him. Thank my lucky stars.

Diagnosis: Croup. Sever Croup. That wiley minx. 

He was scared to bits, but with a quick epinephrine nebulizer treatment and a dose of steroids, he was on the up and up within minutes.

They kept us for 4 hours to make sure things didn't flare back up again.

That put us right at the 4:00 a.m. mark, so the fella had to wake Hazel up and bring her to me in the hospital. The fact that I had both our sets of keys threw a wrench into things. Yaya came to fetch them. Eric brought me Hazel. And then off they went to the airport.   



Thank goodness Monday was a holiday. We spent most of it just like this.

Happily Amos made a grand recovery after we rested up on Monday. He and Hazel and I are enjoying our little week as just the three of us. He likes being the big man around here.

Sending this over to Embrace the Camera:


9 comments:

  1. How scary for you. My eldest has just got over croup for the second time in 4 months (and they say it's uncommon!) but luckily she hasn't been bad enough to go to hospital with it. So glad your little man is okay. xx

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  2. Oh my word, how scary! I'm so glad your son is ok!

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  3. PS. I just visited your etsy shop and added it to my favorites!

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  4. eek! lucas had the croup twice as a baby. no er visit for us, though. i can attest that it is indeed a scary thing.

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  5. Poor Amos! And poor mama! I know how scary those ER visits can be with a little one. Glad he's on the mend!

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  6. Oy! Croup is scary. I used to get it when I was little. I actually remember spending time in a steamy bathroom with my mama... I'm glad he's feeling better!

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  7. oh my...glad you are all doing better! rest.

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  8. Felix never got croup as a baby, but has had it 2-3 times since Kindergarten. Love when he wakes me up in the middle of the night (always in the middle of the night, of course) with the crazy-eyes, whisper-yelling "I'VE GOT THE BARKY COUGH AGAIN AHHHHHH *BARK*BARK*BARK*". No ER trips, plenty of steamy bathrooms, and sleeping with the windows open for cool, moist air. I'm cool with it not making another appearance.

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  9. Wow...what a whirlwind of a day! Glad to hear he is much better!

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