beach nurse

so. i have quit my job and it has been announced. i am so excited about my new opportunity. i cannot say any more about it at this time.

what i can say is that this morning at 4am sirus woke up crying. this is nothing new except i went to him and he was just unconsolable. i picked him up even and he just cried and cried. i tried to give him a bottle and he pushed it away and cried, so we sat in his rocking chair and he started to settle down but then the real problem became apparant, he couldn't breathe. he was huffing and puffing and working really hard to breathe. i took him into our room and woke up eric. i called the doctor, talked to them and they asked to talk to sirus on the phone. i handed him the phone. he talked for a little bit, i took it back and the doctor said she wasn't done and she wanted to talk to him some more. i thought this was all very funny until they said to take him to the emergency room right away.

so eric helped pack him up and i took him in. the first triage nurse was not very friendly and i almost expected him to send us home. we then saw another triage nurse who checked us in and she loved sirus, although she called him simus. next hing ya know we were back in a room. the first nurse we saw in the room was a nice guy names steve. kind of reminded me a little bit like a combination of some ppl i know. sirus got a nekkid weigh in then got his temperature taken in a way he hadn't ever had it done before. next came the breathing treatment. we started with me trying to do it but sirus is too wiggly and too strong. so the nurse took him, held him tight and held the little mask on the poor little guy. he cried and cried but after it was done he hugged me and started to doze off. but of course then i had to poke the bear. i changed the little guy's diaper. no more sleepy time. a few hours passed and steve's shift was over so he stopped in to say goodbye. new nurse josh came in. he was nice but seemed a little funny with sirus. we started another breathing treatment, but he did it a different way. he made a little tube that misted the stuff out right at sirus and josh held it up near sirus's face whle we distracted him with fun things to look at and play with. there was no crying this time. the steve guy wasn't being mean in his way he just maybe didn't know there might be an easier way.
so, sirus loved the stethescope. he played with it and put it against his chest and was having all kinds of fun. then he took it and wrapped it around his shoulders the way the doctors and nurses do. josh told him he looked just like a nurse now, "you look just like me!" but then there was an awkward pause because i ws thinking something but didn't want to say it, but then the nurse said it "well, i guess i wear a shirt when i come to work" that is when the nurse suggested that sirus could be a beach nurse. when i told eric this he said, ya mean, like a life guard.
then off to get some chest xrays. poor little guy did an awesome job! i put on the lead thing and sirus sat on a table and they put a little lead sheild over his little parts. i would have never thought of that. but that is why i'm not an xray person. tey took a front and a side and they showed them to me on the screen. so cute! he has all those ribs and a tiny collar bone! nurseman josh stopped in to say he was going home. sirus was walking around the room and i ws calling eric to give the scoop. then sirus pulled the emergency call alarm thing. the door flew open with people flying in, the intercom started talking to us and i just stood there while sirus was messing around under the table. oops.
finally the doctor came in, commented on sirus walking around then said he was fine, go home. huh? a new nurse came in to discharge us and i told her what the doctor said. i told her that i didn't really thing he was alright. she listened and said, that i was right that his lungs were raspy, something all the other nurses said too. so she went and got the doctor and told him what was up. sirus got an inhaler. when josh was his nurse he brought a funny little stars and stripes beenie baby bear for sirus. sirus loved it but i thot it was kind of weird because i thought it was mystery lost and found/ER comunal kid toy and i was suprised they would be doing that. sirus loved it so i was like whatever. when we were checking out i told the nurse that the bear wasn't ours and that the other nurse gave it to us. she said that a radio station donated hundreds of them so it was his too keep. i was quite releived. then we went home. 2 seconds in the car and he was passed out.
eric picked up the perscrption, the pharmacist told eric that sirus would have to take a deep breathe and hold it. yeah, you get a 1 yr old to do that. we have a thing to get it to work.
as a result of all of this combined with the terrible weather back east we have cancelled our trip.
and i am sick, too. not sure whats wrong with me but that white thing on my tonsil, my aching lower back and all of my organs feeling terrible are an indication that i totally deserved those donuts and ice cream today.