I can feel my chest tightening, ready to act, and how bodies know what we need to do, even if we don’t. My sister in law had to call the ambulance for croup for her son once (very similar description of his symptoms) and I’ll never forget it (which means I’ve taken Archie to the ER in the middle of the night for it, too--when I probably didn’t need to but couldn’t not). I had an (another) ER experience with Archie and I kept just reliving it, but only the worst part of it. The only thing that soothed me was walking myself all the way through the whole experience to the moment where Archie was sitting in front of me OK, also watching PAW patrol. I hope writing this has been a way of doing that for you, too. 💕
I can’t wait to hear more about this writing program ☕️
I’d heard of croup and knew it was fairly common but didn’t know much about it. The paramedics said the word and I was like, “what???? This is what croup is??” Apparently a lot of people call ambulances for it. I needed to process and needed to write something for this newsletter, so figured I’d combine the two—and it did help. And yes, I’ll tell you all about the writing program!
I can feel my chest tightening, ready to act, and how bodies know what we need to do, even if we don’t. My sister in law had to call the ambulance for croup for her son once (very similar description of his symptoms) and I’ll never forget it (which means I’ve taken Archie to the ER in the middle of the night for it, too--when I probably didn’t need to but couldn’t not). I had an (another) ER experience with Archie and I kept just reliving it, but only the worst part of it. The only thing that soothed me was walking myself all the way through the whole experience to the moment where Archie was sitting in front of me OK, also watching PAW patrol. I hope writing this has been a way of doing that for you, too. 💕
I can’t wait to hear more about this writing program ☕️
I’d heard of croup and knew it was fairly common but didn’t know much about it. The paramedics said the word and I was like, “what???? This is what croup is??” Apparently a lot of people call ambulances for it. I needed to process and needed to write something for this newsletter, so figured I’d combine the two—and it did help. And yes, I’ll tell you all about the writing program!