Thea woke up about 4 hours early to nurse last night. As I was feeding her I thought I heard something coming from Ashton and Landon's room. I listened for a little while longer and then woke up Dan and told him that I thought Landon was crying. I thought he would come right back and tell me I was hearing things but he didn't. After I finished feeding the baby I went into their room and could hear Landon's breathing from out in the hall. He had been crying and Dan was calming him down. He was still struggling to breath so Dan told me to call the doctor. I put the phone to Landon's face so the doctor could hear him. After asking who was home with me, Dr. said, "Go to the ER immediately, don't waste any time. " That freaked me out! I quickly changed his diaper and got into the car. I thanked God that we have a hospital very close to our house. On the way Landon would try to talk and kept choking. It was awful. My doctor had called ahead to the ER so they were expecting us. As soon as the nurse heard him she said it was croup. When the doctor came in and listened he said the same thing. Apparently they get kids in all the time with it. Croup causes the airway to constrict making it hard to breath and causing the seal type bark. Landon sneezed and instead of ah-choo, it was bark-choo, bark-choo. I really liked the doctor. He was very kind to Landon. Right away they gave him a breathing treatment. When that didn't seem to do much they gave him a steroid shot. That wasn't seeming to work so they wanted to do a chest x-ray to make sure he hadn't swallowed something. I was so glad for all the reading we do because I was able to rub his back and recite his favorite books and sing his favorite songs to him and it seemed to calm him down. All of the sudden, he perked up. He started talking without choking and when the doctor came in Landon informed him that "our God awesome God" which is one of the songs we'd been singing. The doctor agreed and said, "Praise God for Tylenol and steroid shots". (they gave him Tylenol because his fever was getting higher while we were there). They decided not to do the x-ray because he was looking so much better and sent us home.
Landon slept until 11 this morning and after having some oatmeal he's watching Rescue Hero's. He feels like he has a low fever so I'm going to try and get him back down for a nap soon. He's also very horse and I can hear his breathing a little.
I thank God that our visit went so well. I prayed the whole way there that we would get a good doctor and that they'd be able to help him. Don't you just love answered prayer?? Praise God!! oh...and thank you God, for Thea waking up early. Who knows when I would have heard Landon if she hadn't.