Zahkya has croup again

I could just about cry. Zahkya woke up last night saying, “Mommy I’m having a hard time breathing” and started coughing that dreaded barky cough again. My heart sank. She just had this a few weeks ago and it was scary. I’ve been dealing with Tristyn’s sickness, which doesn’t seem to be getting better either, and now I have Zahkya sick again.

So the very first thing I did this morning was to call her doctor. I knew what they were going to say even before they said it. Her doctor doesn’t have any openings until next week. I’ve had this problem with them for months now. I feel like I’m living in urgent care and the kids never get to go in and actually see their doctor who is supposed to be in charge of their health. It’s just so frustrating and I told them that when I called. I had made her an appointment at urgent care before I called anyway so she got a time slot since urgent care is so busy these days.

Hopefully, they can give her that steroid today and we’ll have 2 good nights and then I’ll take her back to get more and we’ll have another good two nights, and maybe we can keep doing that until the croup is gone.

I’m still coughing and I seem to be coughing more now. I’m starting to cough up some rubbery gunk. My oxygen hasn’t been the greatest either, I’m hovering in the low 90s to upper 80s so I need to be checking that throughout the day.

I wish I could just keep my family inside and away from people for the next month so we can all recover and have a moment of feeling good before we have to join life again.