Doctor, doctor give me the news

As many of you know, Elizabeth has started having wheezing problems when we go out of town or visit other people's homes. We've had a few out of town doctors visits, which resulted in us getting a nebulizer to give her breathing treatments when needed. She hasn't had problems at our house though, until the last week or so, but nothing a nebulizer treatment didn't take care of.

However, yesterday she woke up wheezing and having trouble breathing so much that we took her to our doctors. There they gave her a good dose of medicine to open her airways and then 3 back-to-back nebulizer treatments. And, after 2 hours that hadn't done much to help reduce her wheezing.

So, they sent us to the hospital to be monitored and treated further. We were there for about 6 hours with more medicine and another nebulizer treatment. We couldn't help but laugh at her in the tiny gown while at the hospital. (Sorry the pictures are fuzzy, we only had Zach's phone to get pics.)

Luckily, her oxygen level was good so they let us go home, rather than keeping us overnight. We did 1 more treatment before she went to bed, another this morning and now she's doing great!

I have so much respect and sympathy for families whose little ones are in the hospital for days, weeks, and worst - months and beyond. Although they do their best to make you feel comfortable (bringing in toys, getting drinks. etc.), it's just not the same as being at home.