Croup Attack
This poor, sleepy girl fell asleep on the couch one evening at dinner time and woke up with a terrible case of croup. Sadly, the rest of us went ahead and ate dinner and were actually laughing about her extremely loud snoring. Little did we know that her throat and chest were struggling.
When I woke her up around 6:00, she had a really hard time coming to and we needed to put her outside in the super cold air in order to get her to become alert. Once alert, her breathing was rattly and she was still gasping for air when breathing. I called my dad and he listened to her and told us to have her seen that night; so off to urgent care we went.
When we first got there, they brought a nurse out to listen to her chest and determined that she was okay to wait her turn in the waiting room so we waited for about thirty minutes and then were taken back. The nurse checked her out again in the room and then we waited for another hour for the doctor. The doctor saw her and immediately said she needed a steroid and a breathing treatment and apologized profusely for not getting to her sooner. Mairin did an oral dose of steroids but then proceeded to vomit them up when she was so worked up and crying over not wanting to do the breathing mask. At that point, I called Eric and asked him to find a neighbor to sit with the other two so he could come help me.
They gave Mairin twenty minutes or so to calm down, Eric showed up with some pjs and her stuffed animal, we showed her a YouTube video of another kid doing a breathing treatment and we were finally able to get her to complete the treatment. Then we had to wait two more hours to monitor her breathing. It turned into a very long night but thankfully the treatments worked and she was able to go home around 11:30p.m. Once home, I was afraid I wouldn't hear her if she was having a hard time breathing in the middle of the night so I slept with her that night. She slept well and we survived the whole mess but it's crazy how fast and furious it came on.
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