(By JPC)
We had a very eventful weekend! After two visits to the emergency room (one of which started at 3 am on Monday morning), Ellie was diagnosed with croup. She had been wheezing so during our first trip (Sunday afternoon) they gave her a diagnosis of asthma and sent us home with an inhaler. Late that night, she started up again and was unable to take a deep breath. We tried the inhaler which didn't help at all and then we realized she had a fever so back we went. One cough in the triage area during that visit though and they diagnosed her immediately with croup. The good thing about croup is that it is not asthma! While the first ER visit was 6 hours, the second was only an hour so we were very thankful. Ellie was given a dose of steroids and improved almost immediately. She is still not 100% yet but oh so much better than Sunday and Monday! Her mommies are almost recovered from all of this, too...almost.
We had a very eventful weekend! After two visits to the emergency room (one of which started at 3 am on Monday morning), Ellie was diagnosed with croup. She had been wheezing so during our first trip (Sunday afternoon) they gave her a diagnosis of asthma and sent us home with an inhaler. Late that night, she started up again and was unable to take a deep breath. We tried the inhaler which didn't help at all and then we realized she had a fever so back we went. One cough in the triage area during that visit though and they diagnosed her immediately with croup. The good thing about croup is that it is not asthma! While the first ER visit was 6 hours, the second was only an hour so we were very thankful. Ellie was given a dose of steroids and improved almost immediately. She is still not 100% yet but oh so much better than Sunday and Monday! Her mommies are almost recovered from all of this, too...almost.
Apparently, Ellie thinks the cure for croup is popsicles. Although she would eat nothing else yesterday, she ate SIX popsicles!! Hey, they told us that the cold is good for croup :-)
5 comments:
EVERYBODY knows popsicles cure most childhood ailments! ;-)
Especially blue ones...
(Glad it isn't asthma.)
Who doesn't like a popsicle?
I think I have eaten that many in a day when I wasn't sick!
Ah yes, the good old popsicle! It cures a lot of ailments, including hunger pangs before dinner is ready...and now, the croup. 'glad your perserverance paid off and they got to the root of the problem. Go Ellie!
Love,
Grandpa Clark
been a long, long time that the last time I heard the word Croup..though that went out of style long ago...or because all of my kids are all grown-up now!!! ya, I know, I'm just getting older...just thankful I'm alive to get older.......
Now we just need to find the cure for blue tongue!!! Thank goodness she is better!Croup is so scary!
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