Molly's Hospital Adventures....

 Molly was just fine until after nap on Wednesday afternoon.  She woke up and had a super raspy voice and really hard time breathing, but was playing and having fun, smiley and happy, but given the news from the previous night, I knew it was going to be a bad night, I got all my medical books out, called all my medical resources on what needed to happen when things got bad in the middle of the night.  We tried all the home remedies for croup and nothing would touch Molly’s breathing.  She was working so hard to get a little air, even after humidifiers, hot steamy showers, cold walks outside, we even had her head in both of our freezers to see if we could get her little lungs to open up.  Finally at 10pm it got a scary, I rushed her to Valley Medical ER thinking that if she could just get a breathing treatment she would feel better. I was concerned enough about her breathing that I didn’t feel comfortable driving so f1ar without medical treatment when dealing with a breathing issue (and selfishly after spending the last day at children’s I really didn’t want to go again for a breathing treatment) when we showed up at Valley we were quickly rushed into a room and the nurse took her vitals and then ran out of the room and hit the alarms and called all available doctors to our room.  Things got a little crazy and we got quick shots of epinephrine and steroids to try to get her throat and lungs to open up, that didn’t work so they kept giving her breathing treatments of epinephrine and albuterol to try to get her vitals stabilized.  They worked hard for 1 ½ hours and then called the critical care ambulance (along with an ER nurse)to transport us to Children’s ER .  We got five more doses of epinephrine until finally she was able to relax a little  around 5:30am and they felt better about admitting her.  We were watched very closely by the ICU team along with lots of other doctors.  Will post more later….