Hospital Visit

Last Thursday we took Abbi to the hospital for the first time. It was certainly an experience, one that I think Abbi did really well with. Jenn took Abbi to the doctor earlier in the day and they diagnosed her with croup. As the afternoon wore on, it became harder and harder for her to breath, and so we made the call to take her to the ER.

She handled the urgency of the trip well, and did great dealing with new doctors. They decided to give her a nebulizer treatment to open up her throat and make it easier to breath. They put a mask on her to administer the medicine and after about 5 seconds she freaked out. It took us a good minute to calm her back down to the point Jenn could hold the mask close to her face and allow her to breath in the medicine. But once it was done, she was much better. We stayed for observation for about 3.5 hours and then headed home. We ended up back at home a little after midnight, which we were thankful for since we were at least able to sleep in our beds that night. Instead of waking up in the middle of the night to rush her to he hospital.

She's still reeling a bit from the croup, still has some cough but overall she really seems to be getting back to herself, which is awesome to see.