The week after my birthday was a little crazy around our house! Between appointments for the kids, Ray, and myself
I felt like I was never home. Ray is no
longer limping and we have even been able to hook him to the new wagon. We are still wrapping his foot but hopefully the farrier will be able to get here soon so we can just put a shoe and pad on his foot so I can stop buying duct tape. Joel, Brad and Cecilia all had terrible colds. Actually I think Cecilia gave her cold to
Brad and Joel. Brad and Joel are doing
much better! Cecilia was another story.
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| Vincent and Brad driving Ray |
Cecilia ended up with
bronchiolitis. She had two doctor’s visits and a trip to the ER all in three days. She decided to get sick on a Thursday when I
was at a conference. My mother in law
was nice enough to drop everything she was doing and take Cecilia to her doctor’s
appointment. It involved a lot of
driving back and forth and I am grateful she was able to do it. Friday I got a call from Amy, our babysitter,
that Cecilia was really not doing well and struggling to be able to breath even
when she was sleeping. So after several
phone calls to the doctor’s office I left work and we went to the ER. A few breathing treatments and a dose of oral
steroids and she was a little better. I was exhausted from holding her from her breathing treatments. On
Saturday Brad took her for a check up with the doctor and picked up a nebulizer
for us to use at home. I can tell you
that a 16lb 9 month old is very difficult to hold for a breathing treatment if
she isn’t in the mood to have one. She
is strong and fast!
Between Ray getting medicine
twice a day, Cecilia getting breathing treatments every 4 hours and oral
medicine twice a day, plus Joel not feeling well I felt like we were always
giving someone medicine. The kids would
all get nervous when the saw me with the nasal bulb syringe! A week later and everyone was on the mend and
I don’t spend my nights hopping from room to room anymore. There were 2-3 days in a row where I would go
to bed in my room, be joined by Vince at some point, bring Cecilia into bed
with us at some point and then Joel would wake up and Cecilia and I would go
sleep in his bed. Lucky me, I got to
cuddle every member of my family at some point in the night. The one night Brad tried to take my place in
Joel’s room, but Joel reached over and felt Brad’s facial hair and just started
crying. It was a nice try!
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| Cecilia sleeping through her breathing treatment |
This has all been a nice reminder
of what a blessing it is to have healthy children. There are so many people that have children
that have to be on medicine or have special treatments for the rest of their
lives. I only had to deal with it for a
week! My hat goes off to all the parents
out there that have to deal with a child’s illness everyday with no end in
sight.
