ER Visit # 2...

Last Sunday evening, Xavier developed a little bit of a fever and a cough. It was nothing major and we didn't think twice about it after giving him some Motrin. He went to bed at his usual time and Dustin and I went about our evening.

At midnight, we woke up to Xavier crying. I went into his nursery and got him out of his crib. I changed his diaper and did all of the usual "middle of the night" procedures. I realized once I sat down in the rocker with him that his fever had skyrocketed. I immediately called out to Dust, who came in and took his temperature, It was 102.4 :( As soon as we took his temperature, he began to cough and we knew that something was wrong. His cough sounded like a gasp. It sounded like there was something wrong with his lungs...it's hard to explain but my mommy intuition told me that we needed to take him to the hospital. Dustin gave him some medicine for the fever while I packed up the diaper bag. We jumped in the car in the middle of the night to take Bean to the E.R. 

Once we got there, we were taken back to a room immediately. The nurse listened to our concerns and took his temperature. It was now at 103.7!!! I obviously began freaking out. Even though we had given him Motrin only 30 minutes before, the doctor decided to give him a dose of Tylenol to help break his fever quickly. They inserted the Tylenol rectally and it seemed to do it's job. Within 10 minutes, his fever broke.

Pretending the bed remote was a phone!

You wouldn't know he was sick :)

My Life!

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3:00 AM!

Once the doctor came in, she examined him and decided to do an x-ray. The x-ray came back clear and she diagnosed him with croup. They gave him some steroids to help the inflammation in his throat and sent us on our way.

He is still struggling with sleeping. He has not slept well for a week now but he is getting better and his fever has completely dissipated.

My Little Sick Baby

Please keep our little Beanie Baby in your prayers!! :)