OMG I had the worst night last night, Mia woke up just before 2am finding it really hard to breathe I was so scared and she was getting really upset so I rang the hospital and they told me to bring her up. So we headed up to the hospital and they took her temp and all that stuff and rang our doctor to come up and see her. Dr Chan came up and put her on a drip for dehydration and gave her a needle to help her breathe and then put her on the nebauliser..... for the croup, the poor little thing nearly screamed the hospital down when they took the drip out. The whole time she was telling me it was hurting and I was so sad for her.... I am so glad you can reason with a nearly 4 year old as Brie would have just gone off. So we came home about 3.30.... and Mia pretty much went to sleep (unlike her mother) I think I dosed off about 5am and then I woke up about 8.30 Mia and I got out of bed as she had preschool on and she still wanted to go so I got up and made her lunch and Brie was still lying in my bed burning up.... I didn't want to give her any more nurophen as she had been having it at least every 5 hrs for the last 2 days. So by now it was 9am and I rang the doctors to get an appointment for her and the receptionist said the earliest appoint would be 11.45 so I said don't worry about it and rang the hosp to see what time Dr Chan did his rounds there as I knew he did them in the mornings. Dr Chan was there and the nurse said to bring Brie up if I was worried about her so I dressed her in bed and put her in the car, dropped Mia at preschool and headed to the hospital.... poor Brie still had not moved I knew she was pretty sick she even fell asleep while we being looked after. Brie had a very high temp but wasn't dehydrated like Mia so Dr Chan gave her a needle to help her breathe and told me she has asthma, so we fought with her to give her the nebauliser and then went to the chemist for all the drugs she needed. $130 later I walked out of the chemist! She won't take the antibiotics just spits them back out at me, but she is taking the the Ventolin and the seretide. She is walking around the house like she has a mouth full of drink ready to spit on someone..... the dribble is just falling out of her I am guessing it is from the Ventolin. Right now they are that hyped up on med I don't think they are every going to go to sleep.
Mia had her first easter hat parade today so I will share photos later...
Monday, 17 March 2008
Posted by Amie at 9:54:00 pm
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Oh Amie, what a horible 24 hours you have had, poor girls. Hamish in particular has very bad asthma, and it is scary, and hard to get well managed at first, but soon you will be an old hand. The asthma association has spacers with spinning birdies on them to distract littlies if you ever have trouble getting Brie to take the puffers. I hope that they both feel better soon.
Ohmygosh, that's horrid! I hope they feel better soon! And I hope you all sleep this afternoon!!
it is a horrid feeling isn't it? seeing your kids go through that! I have been there done that with Jade - who was my worst one for that and several trips to Dr Chan at the hospital for massive needles and ventolin etc... Hamish was croup-y as well.
They will get used to it as they find that it helps. The seratide is great - and really works.. We are "winter" asthmatics here - so it reminds me to stock up again.
Hope all is better now.
Oh...my heart dropped reading your post...hope everything is getter better for you all.
You poor thing! I hope the girls are feeling better soon and you get some sleep tonight!
boydy
It's the most awful feeling in the world when the little ones are sick & you can't help them other than medicate them. Hydralyte iceblocks are handy to keep in the freezer for when they look like gettin dehydrated. Make sure you get the girls to rinse their mouths out after the medication so that they don't get rotty teeth from the meds. Thanks for your comments about mum, you poor thing. You must have thought the worst seeing all those cars. I'll update later.
I'm sorry you've had such an awful 24 hours Amie. I hope your little ones are feeling much better soon and the asthma stays under control.
I remember my James' early asthma days of being high on ventolin!! It doesn't seem to hype him up any more (thankfully)...but when they are small and full of beans it can be crazy trying to keep them settled enough for bed.
Hugs,
Melx
Hope the girls are on the mend Amie. It must of been so scary, especially with both of them unwell. Hope tou got some sleep too!
i know how you feel harry gets croup and asthma queit a bit and archie now has croup too at the moment hopefully he want get it as bad as harry does trips to the hospital in the crazy hours off the morning aren't good croup is so scary hope the girls are feeling better. take care maryjane
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