Update

I had lots of requests for updates today from those who heard how we spent our day yesterday. Thanks for all the kind words and prayers, Griffin is getting better.
After a sleepness night, two nights ago, due to nonstop coughing, trouble breathing, and 3 breathing treatments at home we went to the doctor's in the morning. His pediatrician checked him out, gave him a breathing treatment and noticed it wasn't doing anything, just like we had noticed. So she sent us to Children's ER. Apparently, they place being able to breathe at the top of their list of kids to see first, because we only had to wait in the waiting room surrounded by people wearing masks because of H1N1 for about 10 minutes.
They gave him a dose of steroids and three consecutive breathing treatments of the "hardcore" stuff. This did just enough to let us go home at night. We did one more treatment before bed, he slept well and then did one in the morning. He hasn't had to have one since then! We are continuing the steroids and maybe one or two treatments per day until this virus is gone. The doctors aren't sure if he has asthma or reactive airway disease but more than likely he has one of those because whenever he gets a cold it goes straight to his lungs. It was WAY scary for the breathing treatments not work, and the doctors said it was because his airways were so restricted they basically closed off and the medicine couldn't get to them. Time and steroids might be the best solution.
Spending the day in Children's was not fun, to say the least. However, we are very grateful for all the doctors and nurses who helped us out and for the fact that this is something that is manageable, albeit scary. I remember getting breathing treatments when I was younger in the hospital and being terrified so my heart went out to our little guy. What I would have paid to take his place...