Tova got croup the other day. We could have taken her to hospital, they would have kept us for the day/night, they would have given her pred and adrenalin.

Our bottle of Pred had expired (wooohooo, feels good) and it was a Sunday. It isn't easy to find a doctor open on a Sunday late arvo, so we rang the home visiting doctor. He was fantastic. Tova was fantastic, she is so much happier to have someone look in her ears etc at home than in their office. I'm going to remember that!

So, he wrote us a prescription for Pred.

We waiting 2 hours, no improvement.

I 'knew' we were going to hospital at this stage, but she wasn't getting 'worse' so we waited 3 hours. No change. I had packed all the hospital bags by this stage.

Then all of a sudden at about 3.5-4 hours after the pred.... silence, the breathing was almost 'normal'. That was good enough for us. We stayed home and made it through the night with no drama.

Tova stayed home with me on Monday, I didn't get much work done, but we did go to the movies and it was fantastic. I loved it. We watched Despicable Me 2, Tova loves those movies. It was fun, she was happy, breathing was fair..

Tuesday she had a hearing test, quite normal, fluid on one ear, slight loss in left ear and she should be wearing her bone conducing hearing aide. So she will!

Tuesday back to school after the test.

Wednesday all good. Yuval has a sore throat, he probably has a lower immune system left over from having chicken pox the other day. 

Yesterday when I got Tova off the school bus I was greeted with the most beautiful site. Check out the photos! She is STUNNING!

Tova had an appointment with the Endo last week too. She has grown more in the last 6 months than she did all last year. She is about 13.8kg now too! Growth Hormone doing it's job.