GratiTuesday!

It's that time again...

1. Hospital/ER's-thank goodness there are people willing to work all hours of the night so that parents have a safety net during non-normal business hours. Sunday morning in the wee early hours (3am) we finally decided to take Camden into the ER. He had started in on Friday evening with some lovely gagging and choking on his spit/phlegm which ended up coming up a few times...so Bob slept with him in a chair all night so he could be upright. That seemed to help. Next day he acted pretty normal during the day but that night was when he just couldn't stop coughing/crying/gagging, etc...so I took him into the ER by myself while Bob stayed home to get some rest and to be there for Decovin in the morning (keep in mind we were at his parents house for the weekend)...
So when we get there Camden is fairly calm, a little clingy, REALLY tired, but calm for the most part. The nurse takes his vitals and then we wait for them to call us back to the room. We finally get back there and the other nurse looks him over, asks questions, etc...Doctor comes in asks same questions, and looks him over and listens to his lungs...orders a chest xray, breathing treatment and for them to take samples of his snot to test for RSV and Influenza. The Respitory Therapist comes in to give him the breathing treatment of which he screamed through and coughed and fought...then literally right after that the nurses get their snot sample, then the xray technician came in and took an xray of his chest.
Apparently, during the breathing treatment was when they finally heard him cough and they thought maybe it might be Croup. So doctor came back in and listened to his lungs again and decided it was definitely Croup as the RSV and Flu came back negative...so he ordered a different breathing treatment and gave us a script for Albuterol and an oral steroid to help calm down his upper respiratory air way...so after about 3 hours at the hospital we were finally released and I stopped at the pharmacy to get his meds.
All the while the weather outside was frightful...snowing, melted slush turning slowly to ice. So I got back to the in-laws and we packed it up and headed home. We made it home safe and I was able to take a small nap before the SuperBowl...
Camden is doing much better as we are continuing the breathing treatments and oral steroid. All is returning to normal slowly. :)

I think that is enough to be thankful for in one week...I'm so tired today I can't think straight...sorry for long random post. :-)