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Yesterday was a nightmare
I hated yesterday. I don’t want another day like yesterday to ever happen again. I want to forget that yesterday even happened. Zahkya woke up with croup again as I wrote about yesterday. I tried to make an appointment with her primary care doctor and she just didn’t have any openings like I expected. I’m so frustrated with that doctors office. They never have appointments when I need them. They have appointments booked out for a week or two, which isn’t helpful at all. So we went to the emergency room, again. When we first got there she was still having her croup cough (she’s never had it in the…
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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…
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No ER trip last night
I got Zahkya to sleep pretty easily and for the first hour and a half of her being deep in slumber, I didn’t hear her cough a single time. Tristyn still had two more assignments of homework to do so I worked with him and got that done and I got him to bed. I told Seth goodnight as I was walking straight to bed myself. About 20 minutes after me being in bed, Zahkya starts coughing. So my anxiety shot up and I sat there and listened to her. I meant to give her a breathing treatment right before bed and I forgot to so I was sitting there…
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I really hate croup
It’s been such a rollercoaster with Zahkya and her croup. The day after she got the IV steroid she was hyper and super emotional and she had meltdowns like a 2-year-old; however, for the most part, she was doing ok, almost like she had just a bad cold. So all the behavioral changes, although hard, it was worth it to have her feeling better. She did have fevers the next two nights after the steroids and she acted more herself yesterday than the previous days. I know she was excited about Halloween and she was a trouper and trick-or-treated almost as long as Tristyn did but she pooped out and…
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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…