Our early morning ER visit

Over the weekend Jett and I took a road trip to SLC for my cousin Chelsea's wedding. We had a great time visiting with family and getting a break from life for a few days. On Saturday Jett felt a little warm and he has been teething for a few weeks now so I just wrote it off to be teething and did not think much of it. Sunday morning at 1AM we settled down for bed after visiting with my family and Jett woke up crying and fussing which is very abnormal for him so I cuddled him with a bottle and he went to sleep. The next morning he woke up with a real barky cough and running a fever. I did not have any medicine with us so we hit the road for home planning to stop somewhere along the way to get some Motrin. He slept the entire way home and hardly wanted anything to eat. We got home and he was still running a fever so we decided Brandon would stay up at night with him and stay home with him Monday so I could go to work and school. He hardly slept all night and Brandon was a trooper cuddling and wrestling him to make sure he was comfortable.
After all the up all night I thought Brandon could use a break so I got up at 4AM to take Jett so Brandon could sleep for a few hours before I went to work at 6AM. I walked in the living room and immediately did not like what I saw. Jett was working so hard to breathe his poor little chest and sides were caving in just to get a breath. So no wonder why he was not sleeping. He was running a temperature of 102 so I decided to call the doc on call. The doctor called right back and said to take him to the ER. So off we went at about 5:30AM. I drove 80 the whole way while Brandon sat in the back to make sure Jett kept breathing. We found a secret to getting right in at the ER. You just tell them you have an infant that is having difficulty breathing and you are taken back and you see a doctor just a few minutes later.
They found nothing was in his lungs but that it was in his throat. He has croop. I thought croop was just some wivestale you hear about that happened to babies many moons ago, but I stand corrected that croop is alive and well today in my little baby boy. Jett had to get a steroid shot to shrink the swelling in his throat and we had to get a few breathing treatments to make sure his airway was open enough to send us home. He was a real trooper and did not fight or hardly even cried through the whole ordeal. Brandon stayed home with him again today because he is still not 100%. His fever has broke but he is not able to keep food down so now we are worried he is getting dehydrated. So far he has kept down his dinner and is acting a little better, but if he is not 100% by 6AM it will be my turn to stay home with so Brandon can go to work.
This was the aftermath of the ER visit we all just crashed for the remainder of the afternoon. Hopefully we will all have a good night of rest so we can somewhat return back to normal.