This title reminds me of some type of horror movie or something, but it was not the case, exactly. Here's the story:
Yesterday (Thursday) we had a very normal day, just hanging out and doing just the normal things. Everyone was healthy, not one cough or sniffle. I go to my enrichment at 7:00pm and Gary puts the kiddos to bed, still everyone is normal and healthy, not one cough or sniffle (oh did I just repeat myself) You get the hint right: TOTALLY HEALTHY!!! 10:00pm rolls around and Gary and I are finishing up a movie in our room and Brisa coughs 1 or 2 times. Completely normal right, just sleeping and a cough here and a cough there. Then around 11:00pm when I am almost to dreamland I hear a very weird sound, at first I didn't register it, I was almost asleep. Then I hear it again with whimpering cries. I run into Brisa and Garon's room and Brisa is literally gasping for air. It totally and utterly freaked my out. Gary and I immediately grab her and take her down stairs to get a better feel of what is going on. Gary boils some water in hoping that the steam will open up her airways, but it just made her worst because she was fighting it ( you trying putting a 2 year old over a pot of boiling water). She just gets worse, she was very weak and not alert at all. She couldn't even talk. So I called my cousin because I knew she would be up at that hour and immediately she heard Brisa on the phone and said that she sounded absolutely horrible. I told her everything and she said that she is coming over and we are taking her in. We get to the ER and they take her back right away ( weird for an ER, I know) and evaluate her and immediately give her a breathing treatment. The doctor tells me that it is CROUP. I was completely floored. My kids have had croup before and it has never been this bad and it never came on in the middle of nowhere. He told me that he has seen cases where it does just appear that strong. The breathing treatment helped tremendously and she was able to talk again. She never has had a fever and if you saw her today you would think she just has a mild cold with just a cough. It was a very weird experience. The doctor and the nurse on different occasions told me that I did the right thing by bringing her in and they told me when it comes to breathing you just don't mess with it. I am just so thankful that she is okay and I hope to never go through anything like that again, but part of me just knows that this is just the beginning especially with Truper's history.
