Due to the extremely responsible yet annoying rules of Harper's daycare, she couldn't go lest she infect the entire infant/toddler population. So we've been home with her for most of the last three weeks. It's kind of a microcosm of last year when she was sick from November to March.
McCall likes to be really cuddly and kissy with Harper so, surprise, surprise, she is also now really sick with infections and coughing and leaky eye and sorts of just bad. Meanwhile, God has blessed me with terrific health. So here I am trying to take care of Harper Jo and McCall while also trying to not run out of steam (or patience).
Harper go so bad that for a while her breathing was pretty labored and her oxygen level was at 83%. So the good people at Kaiser Permanente gave us a nebulizer, which is basically a machine that vaporizes albuterol (a medicine commonly found in asthma inhalers) to assist her breathing. The problem is you have to strap on a mask to breathe it in and we had to give it to her every four hours.
Harper has a future in Scuba diving.
At first Harper hated the treatments. We had to physically restrain her and hold the mask over her face for 15-20 minutes. Eventually we were able to bribe her with TV. We would only allow her to watch one of her favorite shows, Go Baby, while using the nebulizer. It worked brilliantly and now she will ask for the mask whenever she wants to watch the show.
It's just one more way that TV gets an assist when it comes to raising our child.
2 comments:
the nebulizer! jackson had to have one of those and now we use it for cooper. he's had the same mess and we kept him out of school for 3 weeks before christmas but is just now over it. we don't have the mask though we just blow it in their face.
Oh man! Where do you get that mask? The blowing it over the face gig does NOT work well for our Jackson, whom I hope you're not accusing of being the infectant even though the evidence is quite strong that he probably was. What do we owe you?
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