She has croup.
The viral thing is gone. Now, we have discovered a barking seal sleeping in the bed that once housed our daughter.
It's amazing, with parenting, with how much certain aspects, like sleeping on a child's back vs sleeping on his tummy, have changed, some things are still exactly the same. To help Tahlia breathe last night, I found myself sitting with a child who sounded like she smoked a pack a day for the last twenty years, clothed in her pajamas, wrapped in a wool blanket, wearing a pink hat that has two pompoms on the top and wraps below her chin, singing a silly song on the front stoop. Both the book, and the doctor who was awakened around 11 p.m. to answer our questions, told us that if it was cool outside, to take the child outside for a while. It was cool, so I sat on the front stoop. Tonight, Mommy and I sat with her in a steamy bathroom as the shower ran. Where some things have changed drastically, some have remained the same.
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