Isabelle Bentley

Her croup cleared RIGHT up after 5 days of steroids. Inhalers need to be continued until her tonsils and adenoids come out.

Aye aye aye. So Isabelle had croup a month ago. It got better and went away. And then yesterday it came back. So I took her to her doctor's offices urgent care and yikes. So, she has these small spots on her upper back called petechiae. You may need to zoom in on this picture to see them. They are broken blood vessels. Most often they are caused by coughing or vomiting. However, when those are the causes - they appear on the neck, under eyes, chest, face and/or inside of the mouth. Not ont he back. And... adding to that, she has them in other places as well, like her legs. It's not a good thing for them to appear below the chest. Add to that that her liver felt slightly enlarged and that kids with down syndrome have a 2-3% chance of getting leukemia and that those are symptoms of it... and the doctor basically said we needed to go to the ER right now. The good news is that her lungs sounded mostly clear and that she has vomited or had a fever. And is eating just like norm...

Cuddling on the couch. Her croup-y cough came back :(

Izzie's first trip to the ER :( She woke up at 3:40a breathing really hard. Very scary. Luckily, it was just croup. They gave her steroids and sent us home with instructions for how to deal with it at home.