The Croup

Well, we seemed to be doing better last week. My son seemed to be adjusting to his school schedule and we were hanging in there. Then he started coughing a lot on Friday nite. Hmmm. Maybe it was from petting the dog, his great-grandmother's perfume, the olives he ate. We couldn't pinpoint the cause.

Then he woke up the next morning with a barking croup cough. We know this cough. He couldn't stop coughing and couldn't breathe. I called the pediatrician and they advised me to administer the orapred. He took it and continued to cough. Finally one good steam and some albuterol calmed it down a bit.

But he was sick all day, threw up a bunch of times, and I slept in his room that nite. Listening to him struggle to breathe comfortably made it a rough nite, but we got through it.

He is much better now but I kept him home today as he's still coughing quite a bit. He probably could have gone to school, but hearing him cough every 5 seconds is not helping the learning process.

We'll try again tomorrow.