Our Sick Girl

On Sunday afternoon, McKenna woke up with a really high temperature. We watched her and she seemed to be okay...maybe a little off, but not bad. She didn't sleep very well that night, so we didn't sleep either. Jade didn't feel very good on Monday so he stayed home with the kids. By the time I got home from school, my little girl sounded like a smoker. She was coughing and wheezing and couldn't even talk normal. We called the doctor and the nurses told us that if we weren't too worried that it was probably a virus and we could make the decision to come in or not - we decided to wait. We had another sleepless night. Jade took her to the doctor the next morning and they ended up admitting her to the hospital! Her oxygen levels were really low and they thought she had pneumonia. Jade called me at school and I was able to leave thanks to the wonderful people that work there! They gave her breathing treatments and took x-rays at the hospital. It ended up not being pneumonia, only croup. They sent us back to the doctor where they gave McKenna a shot of some type of steroids and we were then able to go home. My dad surprised us and flew down to watch her on Wednesday. She seemed to be getting better but on Thursday woke up with a temperature of 102 degrees. We had to take her to the doctor again for yet another shot. Staci told us she would watch the kids for us while we went to school. (I have a wonderful family!) Staci even brought McKenna a tutu and a pink horse because she was sick. McKenna seems 100% better, she still has a little bit of a cough. Now we just have to hope that River doesn't get it. I always feel so bad when my kids are sick - you want to fix it but can't.

On one good note, McKenna seemed to get an upset stomach because of the steroids. She was asking to go on the toilet because she didn't want to go in the toilet. She gets a piece of gum when she goes on the toilet and so she had to take a picture of it to show grandma and grandpa. Now we have that down - if only she would pee on the toilet!