The Blaine's!

I forgot to write about our ER experience with Wil!! it was last Thursday night, wil went to bed fine then woke up coughing/breathing really weird at about 1130, i got him up, got a drink of water but he was gasping for air, it sounded like he had aspirated something into his airway and couldn't breathe or cough it out. and his cough was this scary dry bark. i brought him into our bed to just listen to him for a lil bit to see if it would stop he was really hot too, and of course i couldn't find the thermometer, but after another 20 mins we decided it would just be better to take him to the ER than sit and listen to him gasp, i wasn't going to put him back to bed like that. so off we went. they took chest/throat xrays and his airway was swollen, and his O2 saturation was a little low they had him hooked up to all these machines and he was freaking out the whole time, hysterical. they gave him some motrin and steroids in liquid form that tasted real bad, he kept that down for about 30 seconds then it all came back up all over me... super gross lol, they ended up giving him a steroid shot after we sat and gave him a breathing treatment, the steroid shot was to relax his airway so that he could breathe,
whew so after all that they finally diagnosed him with Croup, got him breathing normally again, still with that awful barking cough though. no antibiotics needed and sent us on our merry way, all smelly covered in vomit at about 3am, with the most wired boy i have ever seen. They said that he prolly wouldn't sleep cuz the steroid would make him crazy, lol the ride home made me worried as he sang really loudly to himself lol but once we laid him back down he was out till about 10am the next morning.
I kept asking that since we were there anyways if we could make it a 2fer and start me on a pitocin drip to get this baby out too so we wouldn't have to come back... they just laughed at me like i wasn't serious, silly er people,
but we are almost back to normal, wil's croup turned into a really bad cold that he is still sort of fighting off, he got this nasty cough. he is getting very very good at covering his mouth when he coughs though. he's so polite. I gotta say that was a really scary night. probably my most scary moment with him ever. it hit him so fast and the gasping was awful.