Cough, Bark, Hack! The Croup is Back!

Posted by Toolbox Dad on January 22, 2008

12:20am and I’m just about ready to go to bed after wrapping up some work and blog posts on other sites. “COUGH COUGH, BARK BARK, HACK HACK!” I hear from down the hallway. I immediately think, “OH NO! The croup is BACK!” That’s right readers, with winter comes many fun things for our young ones, but none of them enjoy the frightening cough from the croup.

Boo is woken out of a sound sleep and before I could get to his door he is standing there barking like a seal. Of course I immediately think it’s the worse sounding cough I’ve heard from him, and even worse than the two bouts of croup last year! I head to the closet and pull out the dehumidifier and get that running while Mommy tries to sooth him. He’s SO tired but the look of terror on his face just makes it that much worse for me.

So what is croup?

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