I'm in hospital with a laptop and a 3G dongle

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Everyone is fine, more or less. Astrid and I got an ambulance to A&E in the middle of the night. Rob brought the girls to his family at Centerparcs first thing Saturday morning. Now he, Astrid and I are all at the hospital waiting. There's nothing wrong with her lungs, so that's good. But she's not terrifically good at breathing, especially when she's asleep.

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My sister had croup. I remember being woken up and bundled into the car for many middle-of-the-night trips to A&E at the Montreal Children's Hospital. This was before the invention of steriods, and the *only* treatment available was to "breathe cool air." Which for the first couple of years meant mum sitting on a folding chair in the hospital car park in the middle of the night with my sister wrapped in a blanket on her lap, and my dad & in the waiting room, waiting for my sister to start breathing normally again. Then the hospital got a special room with an air-conditioner, which was a great improvement over the car park. My sister grew out of it within a couple of years, and also grew out of the mild asthma she had as a child.

I hope the steroids get Astrid's under control quickly.

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It's complicated by tonsillitis; the swollen tonsils are obstructing her airway. We're home now though.