You guys, Mini-Mock has croup! He’s the hoarsest, raspiest, shallow-breathingest boy ever right now.
I took him to an immediate care clinic, thinking he just had a cold and needed antiobiotics or something, but once we got there they did x-rays and breathing treatments and gave him steroids and everything, and then when none of that seemed to help, they said I was to drive him straight over to the hospital where he’d be admitted for observation for the night.
So off we went. Once we got there, they put him in the standard hospital fashion:

Here’s the thing about Mini-Mock – he’s SO GOOD all the time, no matter what, that it’s easy to dismiss illness symptoms because he just won’t ever complain about them enough to compel you to act on them. It was only because he sounded SO barky and raspy and labored in his breathing, WHILE he was running around playing happily, that I finally took him.
The entire staff at immediate care fell in love with him. In fact, he so charmed the nurse, who was all grouchy and mean when we first arrived, that she told the doctor in front of us, that if any of his treatment was going to require a shot, she’d have to find someone else to do it, because she couldn’t bear to cause pain to such a precious angel. And she said she hasn’t felt that way in her entire 20 year career. THAT is how sweet he is, you guys. And you add a pitiful raspy voice? It’s practically unbearable.
Anyway, happily he seemed to improve while we were in the ER, and so now we’re home where he’s running all over the place playing and wheezing. That’s my guy.
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