Fun Stories From the Elko ER

First of all, EVERYONE is fine! James and I woke up to coughing at 2:45 am Sunday morning. It was Clay. I figured we needed to aspirate his nose and we'd all be back to sleep. Nope. After I listened to him for a few minutes I could tell it wasn't his nose. Now I absolutely love living with my parents, it's been a blast to watch them interact with the kids. But I was incredibly grateful that morning that we lived in their house. I didn't know what was wrong with him, I was worried, starting to panic. So I took Clay to my parents room and they said he probably has croup and told me to take him to the ER. My Mom even offered to go with me, which was sweet. James and I ended up going, and got right in because no one was there. Clayton did have croup and after a steroid and two breathing treatments he was good to go. We finally got home at 5:30 and Elizabeth didn't wake us up until 10:30 am Sunday morning (bless her heart).

Poor guy was exhausted though. He fell asleep with James in the weirdest position, but it was obviously comfortable since he stayed asleep.

In fact he's been falling asleep in weird places a lot this week.

Well then on Tuesday Clayton was sounding horrible again. He was very wheezy. Well after a day of agonizing over going back to the ER (because you can't get into a doctor the same day out here) and crying and stressing my parents finally convinced me to just take him again. In fact now that I think about it with our insurance I shouldn't have even thought about it.

Once again we got right in ahead of other people. The doctor that day was much better than the one we saw Sunday morning. Clayton got another dose of steroids and another breathing treatment. This doctor actually gave me prescriptions too, go figure! So now we're doing the medication and Clayton is doing so much better.

This is a picture of him after I tried to feed him applesauce with one of the medicines. It smelled horrible and obviously the taste couldn't be masked by the applesauce. That one has been a challenge to get him to take.