The Black Plague that has been hovering over our house got to much for Lil’ Baird last night. I got a call as I was leaving work to go straight to the emergency room at Beaumont in Royal Oak. Seems Lil’ Baird’s breathing got quite shallow and she was trying to gulp air.

We were lucky that our peds dr. called us in to the hospital because we got right in to the ER. Had to run through her first x-rays and two different breathing treatments before they decided, after 4 hours, to admit her.

Sleeping in a peds ward with your wife on a fold out twin bed, in a shared room with another poor little kid who was screaming all night, with your 3.5 month old all corded up and sucking oxygen…not the best way to spend an evening.

The good news is that Lil’ Baird was taken off O2 this morning, her pulse-ox levels were solid and she was discharged just as daddy got back to the hospital this evening.

She’s home, bathed, feed and sleeping…I am now hoping to do the same.

Good nite!