On Monday morning Parker would cough a little then he would say "I don't feel good" and then throw in a few more coughs. I thought that most of the coughs were fake. They sounded fake and he has taken to pretending to be sick or hurt in order to get extra attention. So I figured he was fine; but when he complained multiple times I gave him both of his allergy medications, just in case.
Monday evening his cough became a very dry, 'barking' cough. So we pulled out the cough syrup, humidifier and we tried to give him some extra fluids. Overnight he coughed constantly. And he had a temperature of 102-103 all night- even Tylenol and cool rags and cold drinks didn't help.
Tuesday he is struggled to breathe and coughed, and whined and cried a lot.
We went in to the Doctor. He was diagnosed with Croup. He was given a shot of steroids, and a breathing treatment with albuterol. Parker didn't like the shot, and he HATED the nebulizer, and since his breathing didn't improve we used the nebulizer again- this time with epinephrine. The only thing that would keep him calm during the treatments was me singing 'I am a Child of God' I probably sang it a thousand time that day.
Anyway, still no improvement in his breathing, so we were sent to the Emergency Room. Another breathing treatment and a chest X-ray later we were discharged with a prescription for an oral steroid.
So he was much better Tuesday night and Wednesday, then Wednesday night was bad, I mean Horr.i.ble. Thursday morning I called the Doctor again, and they told me to take him back to the hospital. He got a heavier dose of medicine and we were sent on our way.
Now he's doing pretty well, we're just working to keep the kids separate. Croup gets worse and worse as kids get younger, so we really don't want Aria to catch this.
Parker's favorite part... the ID bracelet they put around his ankle each time.
They also gave us a free stuffed duck and a book- I guess they give stuff to kids when they visit the ER to keep them happy.
It's been a rough week though, lots of waking and worrying at night. Lots of whining and tantrums (mostly from Parker, maybe a little from me).
**Hopsital is how Parker says Hospital, it's so cute. He talks about it a lot since he knows he was born there... but that's another post
5 comments:
Sorry to hear about Parker's sickness. I hope he gets better fast and that Aria stays healthy.
Bummer. i hate it when kids get sick. :(
I hope he is on the bend and that you guys have a good weekend.
Hunter has to do the breathing treatments too... we had a nice pediatrician that wrote us a prescription for about 400 tubes of albuterol, so we have them whenever he develops one of those lovely coughs. And he doesn't even have Parker's allergies and stuff... man, good luck. I'm sorry, that sucks.
Holy Cow. Glad he's doing better now! I hate it when kids get sick.
Oh, my heart aches . . . is he doing better now? Give him lots of extra hugs and kisses from us. Aria too.
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