Last night, we were getting ready to take Reagan to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. We called the doctor and he said that her symptoms sounded like Croup. He instructed us to take her outside so she could breathe the cold air for 15 minutes. So, Mike bundled himself up. I put a hat on Reagan and wrapped her in a blanket. The two of them sat on the patio at 1:00am. Thankfully, it seemed to help. She was able to sleep the rest of the night.
This event made my mind race... Really? Sit outside in the cold? There's no better remedy? Seems kind of archaic.... There's nothing more scientific or technological?
(Follow me now) So, from those thoughts, my mind wandered to the technological advances that have occurred since I was a kid... Things I experienced that my kids will never know about...
- Riding around town in the bed of a pick-up truck (Our softball teams frequently traveled to games this way)
- Getting up off the couch and turning the dial to change the channel on the tv (dials on phones, too)
- Listening to the radio for hours, waiting to hear that one song so I could tape record it
- Blowing in the Atari cartridges to get them to work
- Popping ice cubes out of a tray
- Fighting with my brother over the front seat of the car
- Bringing in wood for the fireplace (not just flipping the switch on the wall to start a fire)
- Doing research by looking in the encyclopedias in the family room
- Yelling to my mom that the tv picture looked good while she was outside turning the antenna
- Tanning by the pool with baby oil and iodine (yeah - that was dumb!)
- Using a pay phone
- Needing a collection of maps in the door pocket so you could find how to get someplace (no Mapquest, no GPS)
- Taking pictures and waiting for days for the film to be sent out an developed before seeing the results
1 comment:
Yikes...croup is scary. Amy's kids all get croup very easily. It makes me sooooo nervous. When they moved to town I bought a nebulizer and got saline solution for it just so I would be ready. I never had to use it :) Emma spent many nights in a steamy bathroom or in the freezing cold air outside when she was little and you're right, it doesn't sound like much of a solution, but it works.
Thank goodness Reagan is okay!!
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