Well, We Found the ER!

We woke up at 2am to a horrible goose-honking sound that even the multiple ceiling fans and air purifiers couldn't dampen. Isabelle was frantically trying to catch her breath and getting agitated, upset and scared. As were Ed and I!

Rewind 3 days to the forecast of a Hurricane Isaac heading towards Tampa as a Category 1 Hurricane and we hit the toy aisle when we did our Walmart run to build our emergency kit. We got a new board game (Trouble, a classic fave of mine) and a Princess Lego set for Izzi and Ed to work on.

Last night, when I heard the goose-honk and heard the stridor as she tried to catch her breath, I feared the worse. She had inhaled one of the impossibly teeny tiny itty bitty Lego pieces. She's almost FIVE for pete's sake, she KNOWS better than to put things in her mouth. But my mind went wild, maybe she was trying to separate two Legos and used her mouth? The set was a house, pool, grill, playground, etc. Maybe she was pretending to eat the food off the grill? (Which are these tiny little hamburgers smaller than your pinky nail).

Long story short, there was no inhalation. Whew!!! She has a virus (heard THAT one before) and the croup. No fever so she can go back to school but I kept her home today to keep an eye on her. She's more than fine, she's been the normal crazy lunatic all day that she always is.

At 3am, when we decided to play it safe and go to the hospital, we had NO CLUE where to go or how to get there. Thank goodness for GPS. We punched in the name of the place where Ed's grandmom Isabelle used to go and found our way there. It was very nice. The people were nice, they were quick and we were out of there in about an hour. Researching ERs was on my list of things to do when we moved here. I just hadn't gotten around to it. Hopefully they are in network on my insurance plan, ho hum.

On a separate note, Hurricane Isaac totally missed us. We had a little rain and wind, too many tornado warnings for my liking but no real problems. So lucky! Unfortunately for the residents on the Gulf Coast, Isaac wasn't so kind to them. On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it looks like we'll have another retired Hurricane name.

God Be With You, LA, MS, and AL folks...