The Face of Croup

Let me just start by saying that I have been very, very blessed by God not to have sick kids up until this point. Neither of my boys have never even had a fever that was related to sickness.  Croup itself isn’t life threatening or even compares to many of the illenesses that hopefully we will never experience,  so I don’t want this post to come across as if our world has come to an end! Just wanted to document how our week went! And how stir crazy this mom is getting!! So when Evan woke up Sunday night screaming and couldn’t get consoled, we knew something was wrong and Jeremy immediately took him to Children’s Hospital. I have mentioned before that Evan has an EXTREMELY high pain tolerance, so when he was telling us that he was in pain and had a 102 degree temperature, we were not about to wait it out!

He was diagnosed with Croup! On Wednesday Carter started running the temperature too. Each boys has reached 102 at least once each day! So guess what we have been doing ALL week long:

This one is my favorite because notice how we transformed the living room! We brought down our T.V. from the bedroom so that we could hang out in daylight during the day instead of having to hang out in our basement. I am so against having a T.V. that accessible but you got to do what you got to do. And we brought up the futon mattress from the basement, because Jeremy spent a few nights sleeping down by Evan!

The doctors told us that if his croup flares up severally enough to take him outside in the chilly night air. So a few nights, that’s what Jeremy had to do. This scene just broke my heart and I happened to have the camera next to the door. He fell asleep out there, but the moment we brought him back inside the house he started back up again! Poor little guy!

But we are hopeful. We have gone almost a full day without temperatures! {fingers crossed} Maybe I’ll we’ll be out running around very soon!