Last night Ellie landed herself in the Emergency Room. She has been fighting a cold and cough for the last week or so. Her school called us to pick her up yesterday because she had a fever. After she got home we noticed she was wheezing and her breathing was really fast. We talked to her pediatrician who suggested we take her to the ER. So, Ellie and Chris headed to the ER while Megs and I stayed home.
She ended up getting a few breathing treatments, oral steroids and had a couple of chest x-rays. Her breathing improved and her x-rays looked OK so they sent her home with a rescue inhaler and a few more days of oral steroids.
She was a little freaked out by the experience at first. But, she got to watch two movies and the radiology folks gave her the cutest unicorn stuffed animal. Chris said everyone was fantastic with her. For a while it was so busy that Chris had to hold her in his lap in the hallway for the breathing treatments.
She got fries on the way home from McDonald's and reported that she had a good time with Daddy and the hospital. She finally went to sleep about 12:30 then got me up at 6:45. Needless to say between Ellie and Megs, Mommy and Daddy are super-tired!
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