For those of you no longer dealing with babies, here's how we Web 2.0 parents communicate when the one-year-old wakes up at 2 AM struggling for air with a cough that sounds like a seal barking and does not respond to the nebulizer or a steamy bathroom. What did we do before text messaging? What did we do before cell phones??
3:39 AM: We're here*. Checked in and waiting. Pulse ox** 96.
3:39 AM: Oh, boy. You were right to take him please text when they see him.
4:02 AM: Lungs are clear. Seems to be from the throat up.
4:58 AM: Good.
Anyway, Oliver is fine after a day home with Grammy. I thought we would not be worrying about croup until winter but evidently it is still possible to develop a "croup like cough" in summer. Oh, Ollie!
*Dell Children's.
**Pulse oximeter, measures oxygen saturation in blood.
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Glad to hear that the scare was over quickly and he's back to husky laughing as opposed to husky choking!
Holy crap, I'm just impressed that you both know what a pulse oximeter is. I'm guessing that's a post-NICU perk.
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