Medical Emergency with Zahkya last night

I tell you what, I’m about over all this sickness. Last night was completely uneventful when I put Zahkya to bed last night. She wasn’t sick and didn’t even have the sniffles. But she sure woke up in terrible shape around 2 am with the worse barking croup cough. She was crying and coughing and she couldn’t catch her breath so I turned on the light and her lips were blue/purple and she was screaming, “I need air I need air!!”

I checked her oxygen levels and they were at 82% so I got the rescue inhaler and gave her two puffs of that, went and woke Seth up and told him to bring the nebulizer, and gave her a breathing treatment with albuterol. By the end of that her oxygen was back up to 94% but she still sounded terrible so I rushed her to urgent care and they confirmed the croup diagnosis. They gave her an IV steroid called Dexamethasone, only they gave it to her orally (they reassured me it was safe) and within 5 minutes after that, she got really hyper and was bouncing off the walls.

Fast forward to this afternoon and she’s still bouncing off the walls and you wouldn’t believe she was as sick as she was last night. I’m about ready to pass out. No naps for this Mom tho.