Asthma

Whenever Caitlin gets sick she gets wheezy. So when she got her RSV last week we pulled out the nebulizer and started giving her breathing treatments. Thankfully it's been a long time since we've had to give her anything for her asthma. The difference was amazing. Last time we had to sing and play with her to distract her from the face piece. She kept wanting to take it off.

This time she's Miss Independent and wanted to hold it herself.

I'm not sure if it's because she felt so bad or she liked the attention, but she keeps asking for a "beething teement"

Her first breathing treatment.

This last week.

Sick

My poor babies are sick.

Last week Caitlin got a small cold. It didn't seem very bad, but her asthma made it seem worse. By Saturday (of last week) she was running a low grade fever and so I stayed home from church with her.

After her nap she was extremely hot and her temp was 104.8. We gave her Tylenol and it helped.

Sunday she was back to normal except the cold was still lingering.

Wednesday she cried about her ear after waking up, but I thought it was from her sleeping on it.

Thursday (after spending the day with the Coffee Girls) she started showing signs of an ear ache so I made her a doctor appt.

Caitlin (and most likely Dominic) has RSV. From what I could gather it's a viral infection that has symptoms of a cold. It can also have a fever and ear infections.

Caitlin has an ear infection in both ears.

Dominic had the same cold and it's turned into a cough.

Most people just assume that they have a cold or allergies and never find out any different.

But small children are more likely to have other symptoms.

So we are all home from church today to keep from infecting everyone.

This RSV stuff is supposedly highly contagious.

Now don't go quoting me on this. I was at the doctor with a crying little girl (she was rather peeved at having a stick stuck up her nose) and a very noisy little boy.

So I only caught parts of what that poor doctor was trying to tell me.

But I caught the highly contagious part so we are stuck at home until tomorrow when the doc told me we wouldn't be contagious anymore.

Caitlin-update

Just a quick update on Caitlin's cough situation. She does have asthma, but it is a very, very mild case. She only has to continue her breathing treatments for a few more days and then we just need to watch her and pay close attention if she gets the flu or a bad cold.