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Hannah has croup. We have been at Children’s since 3am.

Girls haven’t been to the sitter’s since Wednesday [!]. Thursday they were with my parents at home and then we had a very full holiday weekend. 

Sunday night got a message sitters’ kids were sick. Monday AM found they had croup - ! Her kids are 3 and 4, simply got a steroid shot which keeps things in check.

Well Monday while I was at work, my Mom [watching the girls] kept in touch with  me and Hannah wasn’t keeping her bottles down, had a cough, sneezing... Mom continually took her temperature which by mid afternoon was up to 101.5. And being the awesome parents were are, had no Infant Ibuprofen in the house. 

Tim got home early, the Ibuprofen worked fast thankfully. We all went to bed somewhat uneventfully. We had Hannah’s humidifier running. Tim gave her more Ibuprofen at 10:45. 

Well 2am is when the seal-like-barking coughs ramped up - tell tale sign of Croup. After some feeble attempts of soothing her and seeing her struggle to breathe with major retractions, we decided to go to the Emergency Room. 

Nora was a trooper. Very good Big Sister. 

Got here at 3am. It must have been a slow night because our ER bed was immediately surrounded by about 10 medical residents. Nice. Hannah was given a breathing treatment and steroids. The steroids will stay with her 5 days as the virus works its way through. 

We were moved to a holding room around 4am. Got another breathing treatment at 4:15... then waited. Finally at 6am moved to our old Cardiac floor for admission. With Hannah’s medical history and the fact that Croup is worst the first two nights, they want to keep us for a night. 

She’s doing much better. Breathing is still a bit labored. But is much more comfortable and has been sleeping almost straight since 7:45am. 

I’m also a little thankful for the G-tube as we can keep her hydrated. 

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And we haven’t even paid for the heart repair yet! Ay Dios Mio!

5am maybe? She’d been up since 2:20am.

Passed out. Always hooked to monitors!

Resting, resting, resting.