Tripp scares Mimi :(

This deserved its very own blog.  On Wednesday afternoon, I got an urgent call from Josh at work that Tripp was being taken the hospital by ambulance, he had turned blue at his Mom's (Mimi's) house. I grabbed my stuff and ran out the door.  On my way to Lake Shore, I called Josh back to find out what exactly was going on. He said his brother called him saying Tripp was blue and all he could hear was his Mom panicking in the backgroud. Josh told them to call 911, he was on his way. Once he got there, Tripp looked ok, and he cried when he picked him up. A minute or so later, the ambulance pulled up and took Tripp from him. Luckily, Josh knew one of the EMT's there.. they told Josh to head to Lake Shore and they would head that way once they got Tripp settled.  I got there a few minutes after Josh, but the ambulance wasn't there yet.  We walked back outside to look for the ambulance and they were unloading the stretcher. Tripp was sitting in one of the EMT's laps smiling away and taking a breathing treatment like a champ.  I'm not sure if he remembered her or not, but she was one of the EMT's that took us to Shands UF when he had RSV. We still aren't real sure what happened but this is the rundown..  He woke up that morning with a stuffy nose and a dry cough.  Josh mentioned it to his Mom  to kinda keep an eye on him.  She had to give him his albuterol inhaler later that morning because he was sounding congested. That afternoon, she had to set him down for couple of minutes and put him in the walker.  When she came back he was blue, so she picked him up immediately and I'm not real sure what happened next other than he got sick and threw up and then got very lethargic.. and then Josh got there..  The only thing we can figure is he must've gotten choked up on a mucus plug.  When we got to go back to see him at the hospital he was very wheezy and croupy sounding. We had our worse experience ever at Lake Shore.  The nurses were good and kept the breathing treatments coming and ordered chest x-rays, but we didn't see a doctor for 3 hours!!! And prior to that his nurse came in to talk to us about getting our discharge papers ready. We told them very quickly but politely that we weren't going any where until we had seen a dr.    The dr never listened to our child with his stethoscope, never checked his ears or his nose.  He did his evaluation from 3 feet away and just asked us to take Tripp's shirt off to see if he was retracting.  So he had them give him another breathing treatment and a dose of an oral steroid.  He didn't send him home with any meds and told us to follow up with his pediatrician in 2-3 days. I said, we'll be seeing her tomorrow! All in all, Tripp is ok, but I think he nearly caused his Mimi to have a heartattack! :o(  I feel terrible because he scared her so badly! But so thankful she handled things the way she did!!  She has been his primary babysitter since he came home and has made our going back to work so much easier! Tripp loves his Mimi and Pop Pop <3  And of course his Poppa, GiGi and GP!

Also, our pediatrician Stacy is a rockstar! Most times if we call her with a concern or because Tripp is sick, her office does their best to get us in to see her! Tripp loves his Aunt Stacy and Aunt Gina! Poor kid feels like their office and the hospital is his home away from home! LOL 

So after that adventure, we had a pretty low key weekend! The 3 of us did absolutely NOTHING and it was AMAZING!  Even tho we had to cancel our even more amazing plans to go visit some dear friends over in Ft. Walton beach!  :(   But Tripp and I had a nice relaxing weekend spent in our rocking chair because neither one of us felt all that great over the weekend.. and Daddy got to play videogames :)