Monday, September 03, 2007

Nora's First ER Visit

And this is a first I could do without...forever. Last night about 10:45pm, Miss N woke herself up with a cough. This is highly unusual...if she wakes up it is around 2am not 11pm. So I went to check on her and she sounded very wheezy. I brought her out and had George listen to her...didn't want to be that nervous first time mom...but he agreed that it sounded like she was having a hard time breathing. So we called the after hours number who had us call 911 since we thought it was breathing problems. By the time the ambulance came she sounded a little better so we opted to take her to the Emergency Room by ourselves.

Four hours later and too much torture on my little baby, we were on our way home with a diagnosis of early stages of pneumonia and croup. Nora screamed at some of the treatments (she has a breathing treatment, chest x-ray, nasal rinse and a shot), Mommy almost cried while she was having many of her treatments, Daddy was the one who had to do all the bad jobs (holding her down) but don't you know our Little Bit did so great and had a smile for most of the doctors and nurses. They all loved her and said she was the happiest baby they had seen all day!

So I guess this was our first of many eventful days (nights) with life with our daughter. I don't know why I am updating...we've only had 4 hours of sleep and should be napping since Nora is. Well...on the other hand, she just woke herself up sounding like a baby seal so I guess the nap will wait until next week.

PS - She weighed in at 17lbs, 4oz...say goodbye to the 3-6 months clothes. :-)

2 comments:

Heather said...

I know how scary that can be. We have averaged 1 ambulance ride a year so far with Thomas. I'm hoping that is not the case with Vivi girl.
How is Nora doing now?
How are Mom and Dad doing now?

Kristi said...

As in anything involving a parent and a kid, the parent ends up much more tramatized than the kid. Nora is on the mend and 99.9% back to normal. The only thing troubling her is the medicine we have to figure out how to get her to swallow 3 times a day! Me, on the other hand, am still missing the 6 hours of sleep I lost Sunday night/Monday morning.