Wade's trip to the hospital...

As I write this, Wade is being brought home from the hospital... in Ft. Myers.

He is over on the West coast visiting Nana and Papa for the weekend. My sister-in-law, Veronica, had brought him over there because she was delivering her son, Sean (4) who is staying there for the week. (They had an overlap of his school shutting down for summer and camps not opening up until next week.)

Everyone thought it was a great idea to send Wade with them... give the boys a chance to be together and the grandparents a chance to have the boys alone. I didn't want him to go, the original invitation was for him to stay all week, but I agreed to let him go for the weekend and come home with Veronica today.

Well, he wasn't feeling so good when they left, but they called last night and said he was swimming and eating well. Went to bed without any problems.

Our phone rang at 5:45am. He had woken up from sleeping and had a hard time breathing. He had a deep, dry cough and was wheezing. He was so worked up that he starting to vomit.

They called 911. Called us next to tell us and we were on the phone with them when the paramedics got there. He went to the local hospital and was given Ventolin breathing treatments and some oral steroids. He was just released with a diagnosis of croup.

Veronica will be bringing him home after they grab a bite to eat, so I'm thinking it will be after lunch.

It is a 2.5 hour drive.

Poor Wade - the first time he has spent the night away from us.