Sickness blue's

Well, It is Sunday and I am home from church with 2 sick kids.

I wasn't lying when I said they were all getting better, but it seemed to turn around on me really fast. Hope's cough started getting worse about a week ago. Friday night she was really bad, coughing and gagging and almost not breathing, so against everything in me we went to the ER around 12:30am. I hate hospitals. I really hate taking my kids to one and taking my baby is just not right, but I needed help and thankfully my mom works at the hospital so she called ahead and told them I was coming.

- They retested her for whooping cough. We won't have the results for 2 weeks.

- Tested for flu and strep- both Negative.

- They did get to hear and witness her bad gagging cough a few times. I hate going to the Dr. and telling them what is wrong, but they don't see it or hear it because you aren't there long enough.

- They had to stick a tube up her nose and suck out the yuckies to help her breathe better. She was so stuffy. She hated that worse than drawing blood.

- They drew blood to test for things and then left the IV in just in case they needed it for later, they didn't want to have to stick her again. I was thankful for that. They taped and boarded it down so she wouldn't bother it. It was late she was exhausted anyway.

After most of the tests and the IV I took her out to the play area, books and toys and things. They brought out some meds for her ear infection that I thought was gone a month ago. So they gave it to her and back up it came all over her PJ's and blankie,yuck!! So we went back to her room and she threw up more. She kept pushing the bucket away, but I had to tell her to leave it, poor baby.

We changed her into a kids gown and got a hospital blanket. Then they were ready for her to have a breathing treatment. So we sat on the bed and I held her and I held the mask to her face and then she fell asleep. Then we had to wake her for one more test and take out the IV so we could go home. When we woke her and she saw the nurses she instantly started crying because she knew something was coming. I kept saying "we are almost done, Hope. Just one more thing and we can go home." She would cry and say"almost done? I go home?" Broke my heart.

I was so glad when it was over and we could take our sweet Girl home. Please pray for Hope and Heidi to get well soon.

Heidi had a 24 hour thing on Saturday, but seems to be better now. We'll just keep praying it stays that way.

I hope you all are well. Happy Sunday!!

I didn't get this posted in time but, I wanted to update again. Today is Tuesday and Heidi is fine. Hope is not. Please keep praying.