Bed And Not Breakfast

So, Saturday night I was working on fixing our computer. The thing has been having issues for weeks now, and it's really driving me crazy... it's been keeping Mikey from doing his homeschool, which is almost all on the computer. So about midnight Cathy and I were wrapping up a Scrabble game that we were playing while the computer was running some long process. Mikey was asleep in bed, and so was Hannah. We heard something from Hannah's room that sent us running into the room... Hannah gasping for breath. Apparently she had been around something... pollen, mold spores, dryer sheet fragrance, something... that caused an allergic reaction. Hannah has a history of breathing weirdness anyway, and there's nothing like hearing your baby sucking hard for air to send you running to dial Nine One One!

After the ambulance got there, I called Mom's cell to see if she had given her anything unusual to eat while Hannah had been hanging out at Meme's that afternoon, and Mom answered right away. At midnight Mom answered right away. This was because she was already at the hospital E.R. with Dad, who had strained his back and was getting pain pills. We loaded up Cathy and Hannah into the ambulance, I woke up Mikey and loaded him and myself into the car, and we were off to St. Francis Hospital. Mom and Dad took Mikey home with them to get some sleep (they were done in the E.R.) while Hannah got admitted to an E.R. room. Long story short (and I mean REEEEEALLY long, as anyone who has ever been to an E.R. knows) we were there until nearly 4am, and by the time the doctor came in, to all appearances Hannah was perfectly fine. He gave us a scrip for some Children's Benedryl and a steroid to relax her breathing passages, and we went home and passed out into bed.

At least we got a chance to watch some Little Mermaid and Lilo & Stitch in the E.R. (both were episodes of the series, not the original movies). Lilo and her alien friends were trying to get guests to come stay in the new bed-and-not-breakfast they had made out of the crashed spaceship (they didn't want to have to cook breakfast). Kind of ironic to watch that while sitting in a room in the E.R....