Emergency rooms and sleepovers

I won't belabor the point, since there is enough emotion in taking a child to the emergency room in the first place that I don't want to relive too much by recounting it. At any rate, our youngest daughter - Allison - was having some trouble breathing and was taken, in turn, to an urgent care facility, to the emergency room (via ambulance) and finally admitted to the hospital all from about 4:00 in the evening on Saturday to about 9:00 at night. (The first hint that it might be serious was when we had only been in the exam room a couple minutes when we heard the doctor say to the nurse in the hall, "I'll see the toddler first." They almost never see you that quickly.) We were discharged just over 12 hours after being admitted to the hospital with a couple of prescriptions and an order to see her normal doctor within a week. All this time, Bryana had a birthday party to be at. That was fine at first, but with the party starting at 4:00 we started to wonder what we were going to do about the time Allison was being loaded into the ambulance.

Without me even asking, the mother of the birthday girl offered to put up Bryana for the night as soon as heard what was going on. And, as it just so happens, Bryana has been bugging us for about six months or so to let her do a sleep over. We keep telling her that she'd have to wait for her next birthday, but this was a perfect opportunity for us to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. We were able to focus on Allison (and trade off sleeping in the hospital room) and we didn't have to worry about Bryana's well being at the same time.

I'm pretty sure that Bryana didn't notice us being gone at all.

UPDATE: Allison seems to have responded to antibiotics (I should have mentioned that in the original text), so the assumption is that an infection was causing the issues. Really, it's kind of a mystery still. Could be asthma... could have been a viral infection that went away on its own... who knows. Still, she's acting fine now and hopefully we're done with that little scare.