Henry hopitalized for Croup

There were volunteers that brought around hats, Sarah was in Heaven!  Henry not so much.

In the middle of December Henry started to get a cough Thursday night, which sounded like a croupy cough.  Dave rocked him to sleep on Thursday and was up a lot during the night just being miserable.  Friday we traveled up to the cities to see Dustin and Nicki, and he was starting to look and sound better.  Night came and again he got worse, and was miserable again.  The next day he was okay again, but his croupy cough was still there.  This lady I know said I hope that doesn't turn into really bad croup and don't have to take him to the hospital.  Well, that night around dinner he didn't want to eat and was miserablele again.  I decided to put him down to see if he could relax at all.  When Dave came home from work he checked on him, and he said we should give him a blessing and then take him to the hospital.  Dave took him in, and when he got there he was in severe respiratory distress.  They gave him a respiratory treatment, but he continued to have the barky cough (the third night is the worst of croup).  They put him on some oxygen, and gave him a second treatment.  Finally the cough started to lessen, but they wanted to keep him for observation.  We have wonderful neighbors/friends that came over and watched the kids so I could go up and make sure they were okay. Dave stayed the night, and held him and was with him.  The next morning was Sunday. So Sarah and I stayed with Henry;Dave took the boys to church with him.  Sarah was VERY worried about him being in the hospital.  It was good for her to see that the hospital is a good place to be to get feeling better.  We had an out pouring of love from our friends/church members.  Since Henry really wasn't up to eat Sarah and I ate a the hospital breakfast, Sarah thought it was the best thing!!  Henry started to perk up and start eating around lunch time.  We got a possible discharge time that night.  Henry was starting to move around and play a little after a LONG nap.  Finally, that night we got to go home, and I needed to give him a steroid to prevent any other problems that night.  We were so thankful to be home and Henry feeling better.