I foolishly thought on Friday, this will be the first weekend we’ve all been healthy in a while. Big mistake. Yesterday, Dave had to leave church at the start of the sermon to head to Urgent Care. He had been having trouble breathing all morning and, coupled with his cough that won’t quit and his asthma, needed to be seen. He returned to pick us up with two prescriptions. One for the bronchitis he was treated for more than a week ago that won’t go away and Prednisone to open up his airway. The poor guy has been on so many prescription drugs in the past two months, I’ve lost track. His pill pile on the counter ebbs and flows. He says his continuous cough doesn’t hurt and since he’s not running a fever, the doctor says he’s not contagious. No chance I would have gotten it, anyway, last night. We were separated in bed by 2 flower pillows, a Tinkerbell pillow, Bob the Builder pillow, heart pillow AND our 3-year-old. Don’t even ask.
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 15
This post was written by tthomas on October 26, 2009
Too bad for Dave, but don’t you just look back at the night and think, well, at least we got to sleep! I just laugh at the chaos those kind of nights bring! Have to laugh at them or we will never keep our sanity. You are an awesome mom and do a great job keeping balance! Love your blog - keep up the great work. Nice to see that our “normal” is the same as other people’s, we do survive, and our kids are loved!
I have asthma as well and I’m finding it’s been a long fall already for my asthma, I’m blaming it on the weather, cold & rainy.
When Eileen said there would be sun and no rain today I jumped for joy!
Hope he begins to feel better quickly. There’s nothing worse than the feeling your head is in a fish bowl and you can’t get out.
I sure hope Dave gets better!! It must be hard to teach and have a cough like that. You and Dave are doing a fabulous job with the kids. Sometimes when you are so tired and all you want is sleep, and a 3-year-old wants to sleep in your bed, you let them. No harm in that!!
I can sympathize with your husband. I have been off work 6 days now with bronchitis/asthma. Two courses of prednisone and still not much improvement. Best of luck to all of you
Hope he asked the doctor for some butt kicking antibotics and can just get this dealt with. Sometimes you feel like they give you this pitiful antibotic that would not kill a germ, just to get you to have to come back and get a stronger prescription. = more money! The waiting rooms are full enough this year with the flu bug!
Sorry to hear about Dave. Hopefully, by now he is MUCH better! Wasn’t the chicken wire/bone enough for him?
Hang in there.
Kathy