Sick

I haven't updated the blog in a while... probably because we've all just been sick and I've had no energy to do anything lately :(  I guess being sick, taking care of a sick baby, and being huge pregnant all at the same time is hard...at least for me it is.

A little over one month ago Kimbri came down with the croup. Even though she got the medicine in her fast (they just gave her a shot), the doctor said that she would have the symptoms, a runny nose and cough, for a couple weeks after. So just as she seemed to start getting better I came down with a very sore throat and runny nose. Then Rick got it. And Kimbri just as Kimbri seemed to be getting better her cough suddenly got worse. 

Rick and I both started feeling better and got over the sore throat and runny nose thing. And it seemed like Kimbri was just not able to completely get over it. Just as I would think that her cough would start to sound better, it would just go right back to the way it was before. I kept thinking she would get over it soon and didn't want to be the paranoid mom bringing her kid back in right after taking her in for the croup just a month before. 

But one night that thinking changed. Kimbri sounded so bad during the night. She coughed and coughed and coughed some more. She slept through the night but just kept coughing. I've been a pretty light sleeper ever since becoming a mom, and I heard every time she coughed. And it started to worry me. Because it wasn't just a cough anymore, it was a wheezy, hard to breath sounding cough. 

So we scheduled a doctors appointment for that morning. By that point her oxygen levels were super low. They would rise and then dip and repeat that process, just over and under the borderline for hospitalization. So she had two breathing treatments and then they decided she would be okay to go home but they had a machine sent to us that night so we could do breathing treatments at home. 

The breathing treatments, along with a steroid medicine stuff they gave her, helped a ton! I felt so bad for our little girl. I guess this is the season for this type of thing, unfortunately :(

I'm sure grateful for doctors! And I'm glad that little miss Kimbri is feeling so much better!