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

[ailbhe]

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.

Comments

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Poor little girl - how terrifying for all of you. Glad her lungs are fine, and hope they can sort out how to help her remember how to breathe even in her sleep.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

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.

[cabbagemedley.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, how terrifying. Glad it's not a lung problem and I hope they have some smart ideas for helping her.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

How frightening! I hope she gets better very soon.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Badly-breathing children are scary. YB had croup on and off from about the age of 1, and even now, when he's grown out of croup, gets horribly wheezy in the evenings when he's got a virus.

Hopefully this will pass quickly and she'll bounce back visibly. You, and Rob, may take longer to recover. Thinking of you all.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Glad there's nothing wrong with her lungs, and hope they find some way of helping her breathe in a non-hospital environment.

[barakta]

Hope things get better for poor Astrid ASAP and hope you manage some rest in the meantime.

Hospital sounds safest place for her if she's not so good at the old breathing thing when asleep. Poor wee thing.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Hope they figure out what *is* wrong quickly, & it turns out to be non-scary & easily treatable. Poor both of you *hugs*.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Aw man. How scary. I hope she gets better ASAP!!!

*hugs & tea* to you and Rob and Astrid.

N.

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

just *hugs*!

[ailbhe]

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