croup.

Brecken caught a bit of the croup this weekend so he's been miserable-crying at the top of his lungs and you can still hardly hear him. I feel so bad for him. It got bad enough that we called the doctor on call yesterday (who happened to be Dr. Jake) and took him in to the clinic where he ended up getting a nebulizer treatment and then the machine sent home with us to do every 6 hours. He hates it and cries, but maybe crying will make him breathe in the nebulizer air better. It's a little oxygen mask that we just hold in front of his face and he gets really mad when he turns his head and you move with it! The poor boy. I hope it goes away soon- his cough scares the living daylights out of me. His daycare person today is Dr. Jake's wife, and she herself is a labor and delivery nurse. So it makes me feel better knowing he's probably in better care at their house than he is at ours! Brecken's ear infection is back with this croup, and Jake looked at it again this morning when Josh dropped Brecken off at their house. He said we'll keep an eye on it this week and if it doesn't get better when the illness goes away, we'll start antibiotics. But for now we'll just keep an eye on it to make sure it gets better, not worse.

Brecken was breathing a tad bit better this morning and was smiling a little more, so maybe the worst is over.