Friday night after we got home from running errands, including cutting my hair short, Kendall started to have a runny nose and eyes. She didn't look normal so we gave her some medicine before she went to bed. Around 1 in the morning, she woke up screaming in pain saying "I hurt" over and over. So, we brought her into our room to see if she would sleep better with us. That didn't help at all. She just couldn't sleep and started to have a really bad croup cough. At one point it got so bad we took her into the bathroom with the shower on hot so the steam could help her. It did for a while but then she started getting upset that it was too hot in there. So, we just brought her downstairs. Later after Cassidy got up, we ended up taking her into the emergency room. Her fever and croup were just not getting better. She looked so bad too, poor thing. They hooked her up to monitors to keep track of her breathing and heart rate, that all seemed fine, but they could hear her breathing and wanted to treat that. So, they gave her an oral injection of a steroid, it was going to help open up her bronchial tubes I guess, it works as soon as it is taken and lasts for 36 hours. About5 minutes after she took it, she started throwing up and getting agitated and her body was all tense and she was screaming like something really hurt. The doc came in and took her temp, it was almost 103!!!! So, they gave her some Motrin. After that, I sat in the rocking chair and rocked her, she didn't fall asleep but she was so out of it. You could just tell she was so miserable but there was nothing we could do but comfort her. This lasted all night. Then we put the humidifier in her room last night and she slept all night, thank God. Today she still isn't feeling good, but is actually taking a nap. I am sure she has to be tired after being up from 1 am until almost 8pm yesterday!!!!
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