Croup

Poor Sarah. (Okay, this is not a poor Sarah picture, but I always think that pictures make posts more interesting, and this was just one I had at hand.  It is her new dress worn two Sundays ago.)

Now photoshop in your mind a little girl with an oozy mucous face, red eyes, and the saddest dry cough.

We took her to the doctor yesterday because of her coughing and wheezing.

He said that it was his fourth case of Croup this week.

Yes, it is the same sickness that Diana Barry's little sister almost died from, if it were not for Anne Shirley and her ipicac administrations (Think "Anne of Green Gables").

It sounded so archaic, like the doctor saying that Sarah had small pox or diptheria.

When I told people that she had Croup, they always asked, "what is that exactly?"  According to the photocopied sheet my doctor gave me, 'Croup is a viral infection of the vocal chords, voice box, and windpipe'. 

The paper said to sleep by the child to make sure that they can breathe because it can be deadly (like in "Minnie May's" case).  But the 'bark is worse than the bite'.  It has not been too bad.

Sarah lives.  She is getting better. In three days you can all come and visit (non-contagious:).