Asthma Sucks!

For those of you who don't know, Baby Girl has asthma. She stayed pretty sick her first two years of life - for the first year or so, docs kept telling me "kids get colds." But I knew there was something else going on, it just didn't seem right. I won't go into all the details here, now, but I will say that you should always trust your instincts as a parent. While I am not happy that my daughter has asthma, I am so glad I pushed docs and didn't listen when they told me "it's just a cold." If I hadn't pushed, I probably wouldn't have my daughter with me today.

So, Baby Girl is sick now, really sick. It's miserable, pitiful, awful. She's been coughing for a week and a half, nothing seemed to help. We went to see her allergist last Thursday, he put her on an oral steroid to knock out the cough and switched her from her nebulizer to inhalers - a switch I had been SO ready for, but Baby Girl, not so much. Her breathing had seemed okay, her ears were clear, and the orapred should have knocked out her cough in a couple days. Well, it didn't. Sunday night was awful, she coughed all night, couldn't get comfortable, cried. She still had no fever yesterday, so symptoms of anything other than a cough, but I took her to the doc first thing yesterday morning. She ended up throwing up mucous from coughing so hard while we were there, and turns out, she has a pretty severe double ear infection that apparently popped up out of nowhere. And thank goodness we caught it pretty early - all the other symptoms kicked in shortly after we got home from the doc - fever, goopy eyes, no appetite. No fun!!!!!

So, this post did not turn out the way I had hoped, I apologize that it is just me rambling and venting - I think I am just so tired that I really just can't think straight. I really just want to get the point across that you should always be persistent and follow your intuition, especially when it comes to your children. I know the docs are the ones with the expertise, but as parents, we know our children better than anyone.

Okay, I am done rambling. I think I have an idea for a giveaway now though, so stay tuned, I'll work it all out and try to post later today, maybe tomorrow.