On a scale from one to awful The Croup weighs in a full blown - AWFUL. It is the current sickness Brode has gotten. I am fairly surprised he did not get it earlier but either way it is now on our list. Matt got it all the time when he was little so it does not surprise us at all. With Brode's history of pneumonia and asthma it was bound to happen.
He got a slight temperature last night and went to bed a half hour early. Around 11:30 he woke up and it was downhill from there. At that point he had the barking seal cough and was not able to sleep more than 20 or 30 minutes at a time. We got the cool humidifier out (yes we have both because each sickness demands something different) and took shifts rocking him, sleeping in bed with him, sleeping in the living room with him. He seemed to be doing fine as long as he was sitting up so he got a little bit of sleep.
Unfortunately we had to cancel swimming class this morning, again. He has already missed some. We've also got plans that he can't go to next weeks so I really wanted him to go this week.
UPDATE: We went to the doctor and confirmed croup. Thank you daddy's genes. Brode was given a steroid and some Tylenol and will hopefully start improving! He is sitting at my feet emptying his entire basket of books reading them all, I'm sure it's going to be a quiet day around here.
On a completely different note. Yesterday after I posted about the nice weather I went to run errands and it started raining. It then continued to rain all afternoon. Whoops spoke too soon. Brode and I ran a few errands together and came home with WAY too much scrapbooking stuff (it's a sickness I think) a few random things, and golf clubs for the little guy. He does NOT need any more toys and won't be getting any for a long time, but he needed some outside toys now that it is getting nice. He sure is spoiled. They were $5 I couldn't pass them up. Too bad it was raining and he had to play with them in the house the first time.
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Malorie- I'm sure you've thought about this, but I thought I'd throw it out there, when I started to cook with whole foods, and feed Killian litte/no processed foods, both of our health sky rocketed. Sure he gets colds like everyone else, but he and I have been alot healthier than ever before.. not to mention the difference I feel! If I go a couple days of eating too much processed foods now I start to feel it. I just thought I'd let you know my experience with it. I know how sick Brode gets all the time, and how much you hate it.
On a separate note, my mom bought Killian those same golf clubs for his birthday... 3 months away! Isn't it funny how they suck us into buying them things they don't need when they can't even really talk yet? :)
Hope Brode feels better!
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