When Brent got to the hospital, they immediately took him in to the trauma room and started oxygen. They tried to do a mist with him to see if that would help. His pulse and O2 stats were good the whole time. They gave him a steroid and another strong breathing treatment and he was able to catch his breath. They said it was Croup. They kept him at the hospital for 3 hours after his treatment to make sure he was stable before they sent him home. The CRAZY thing about it all, was he had NO symptoms BEFORE he woke up saying he couldn't breath, and didn't have ONE symptom AFTER the hospital. I don't really think it was Croup. I have NO IDEA what it was, but it was Super Scary! I am thankful we have family and friends who I can count on to pray for us and over us!
The Sunday AFTER Christmas I woke up feeling HORRIBLE!! I thought that my body was probably just tired because we had been going going, so I told Brent that I thought I should stay and bed and rest. He is AWESOME and said that sound fine. Well, Monday was NO DIFFERENT. My body hurt so bad and I just felt HORRIBLE. That afternoon, I got out of bed and decided I needed to go to the doctor and get checked out. I wanted to make sure it wasn't the flu. We were supposed to be leaving for our ski trip on Wednesday and I wanted to get some meds before the trip so I could be feeling good enough to go. So, I took myself to the Texas Med clinic while Brent stayed home with the kids. After 3 hours of being at the med clinic, and feeling like I was going to die, I found out that sure enough, I did indeed test POSITIVE FOR THE FLU! Of course, this year, I did NOT get a flu shot. Although, I have had several friends who DID get the flu shot and still ended up getting the flu! Well, I was in bed, SO SICK, for 6 DAYS! I have never had the flu. I felt so bad and had no idea when my body would feel fine enough to be able to get out of bed. On Thursday night, I had developed a pretty bad cough that made my chest hurt SO BAD. I decided to go the Med Clinic once again to make sure I didn't have pneumonia. Thankfully, I didn't have pneumonia and everything in my lungs looked good. Needless to say, we missed the ski trip and I was still sick with the flu on our Anniversary. Poor Brent. He was and IS a ROCK STAR DAD!! He took the kids all week by himself, to the zoo, the library, chick fil a, bass pro shop, the farm and fredericksburg. Praise God, no one else in the family got the flu or even got sick!! It took a whole week AFTER the flu for my body to feel normal and strong enough to do things. Man that was tough. Now we need to have a make up ski trip and Anniversary date!!
