Two trips with the doctors this week. We started off Monday with a trip to urgent care with Connor's allergic reaction to peanuts, and end the week with tonight's rush to the ER. Connor has been feeling perfectly fine all day... his normal happy self. He went to bed tonight without a problem. But at 11pm he woke up crying a little. Usually I just let him cry it out for a moment and he goes back to sleep. But before long, he started crying a little more, and then making a funny coughing noise. Then the cries turned into screams. So of course I go into his room, and he's sitting up in bed, gasping for air, in between cries and coughing, and hysteria. So of course I call my Mom (because she knows all!) and she told me to take him to the ER.
So... the whole drive there (about a 5-7 min. drive) he's crying and coughing and wheezing, etc. But as we get to the ER, he calms down a bit, and they listen to his breathing, and he's all of a sudden not wheezing, and nothing seems wrong with him. But they put us into a room anyway, and give him a steroid, and he's all smiles and talking to the nurses and happy as can be. No one hears much of anything coming from him. So they leave the room again, and he starts whining a little. So with all the medical people outside the room, I knew someone has to be listening. And then Connor wants my phone, which I usually would just let him play with... but I thought "when he cries, he starts coughing.... I'll just let him cry." So I don't let him play with my phone... he starts crying... he starts coughing and having trouble breathing. RIGHT away I hear "oh wow, he sounds bad in there... sounds like he has croup." So someone comes in a few minutes later and said "I heard him coughing out there. We're going to do a breathing treatment right away."
I swear before that moment... they thought I was making it all up!!! Well, giving a breathing treatment to a 14 month old isn't the easiest of things, but he was pretty good, and was even holding it up to himself.
Finally the wheezing and breathing calmed down, and he was just having a blast playing on the bed...
Then the doctor came in, and said that it sounds like he's got asthma and croup. But she wasn't going to say "asthma" and classify him as asthmatic this young. (Not sure why... if he's got it, he's got it). She asked if either of us had it and I said yes, that I do, and she said "ok, well then yeah, he probably does. But I'm not writing it in his record. We don't like to classify that until they're at least 5. But he does have croup." Poor baby. She said that it's not contagious though, so that's good. I read online that there are 2 types of croup.... was caused by a viral infection, and the other by allergies. The viral one is contagious, the allergy one isn't. So, like I've thought/known since Connor was a month or two old, is that he has HORRIBLE allergies. Yet no doctor would admit it or do anything about it when he was under one. But now that he's 14 months, I'm going to set up an appointment with his doctor to get a referral to an allergist, to see if there's anything I can do to prevent this from happening again.
P.S. That was the shortest trip to the ER I've ever had.... we were only in there 2 hours :)
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