ER Stands for EXTREMELY RIDICULOUS

Guess where we spent the night Friday?

My sweet girl made her first trip to the emergency room. The first of all my kids, actually. She woke up around 1:30 with difficulty breathing- a HUGE scare for this momma. She was also coughing a really odd-sounding cough. I couldn’t tell if it was an allergic reaction or what, so I first called my awesome sister Dana, who is a RN (so nice to have a nurse in the family!) As I suspected, she suggested the ER. You just can’t mess around with that kind of thing. So we checked into the ER around 230. Only one other person there, so I was hopeful. Though she was still coughing terribly, Abby had started breathing normally by this point, and was a little amped that we were out & about in the middle of the night. So we took some pics.

That lady (with a baby) gave up around 330 and left. So I was hopeful that we would get in right after. Nope. We finally went back at 450 am. Abby’s excitement had passed at this point. My precious girl just wanted her momma.

At least now she could rest a little in a bed. And thank goodness for Disney! She got to watch Octonauts, Mickey Mouse, and Doc McStuffins multiple times.

Also, good thing Momma took a few extra seconds & threw some Cheerios in her bag. They saved the day, big time.

At 6 am I went back out & DEMANDED a doctor. Okay, I was polite. But they knew how irritated I was. We had been there 3 1/2 hours, and there was NO ONE THERE! Extremely. Ridiculous.

The doc finally comes in & diagnoses her with Croup. Ah, that’s the weird barking cough. Her airways were tight & swollen, so he gave her a steroid to open it back up. We finally crawled into bed at 8am, just in time for the boys to wake up. Good thing Daddy was home!

The bad part is, it’s Monday night as I type this, and she seems to be suddenly worse. I think we’re probably back to see Dr Chris tomorrow. Sigh.