Thank you for the well wishes. My son is doing a lot better today.
I haven't done much else this week-- just lots of watching my son breathe and researching childhood asthma. I've been educating myself on the terminology, treatments, and theories.
I even contacted our local asthma specialist and got her to come to OUR HOUSE and examine my son THAT day. (It pays to be pushy, people)
There's plenty of info out there, just not much in the way of a cure or prevention...
Since my son's asthma seems to be brought on by upper respiratory infections which are a permanent fixture of... you know, CHILDHOOD and completely unavoidable, there's apparently "nothing we can do about it".
The best we can do is "hope" he outgrows it and just accept it as "part of our lives" until then.
Well, I'm sorry, but I'm just too much of a control-freak mommy to buy that!
His doctor has put him on daily inhalers as a preventative. However, I'm not too keen on that either as they seem to come with some equally scary side-effects.
I've also read that something like one in FIVE kids suffers from asthma, so I guess that means at least one in five of you parents reading this post are dealing with this too.
Any insights or support you could provide would be really helpful to me right now... even if it's just to tell me to get over myself already.
I'm a big girl. I can take it.
In the meantime, I'm going to get started on designing that bubble for us to live in and resign myself to a life of only having online friends...
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Other things that have been overshadowed by the recent week's events, as if this post wasn't long enough...
OUR HOUSE IN TEXAS SOLD!!!! Yew-haw!
Oh yeah... did I forget to tell you? It was under contract for about a month, but seeing as the last "committed buyers" backed out a week before the closing, I wasn't about to hold my breath.
In talking with other American expats in London, we've learned that most opted to rent out instead of sell their homes in the States. We actually considered doing the same when a serious offer came in...
As much as we didn't like the idea of being absentee landlords, we hated paying that mortgage even more. Now, we don't have to do either one!!!
Now for the tacky details... We certainly didn't make a killing on the house, not that we expected that we would.
We got back about as much as we put into it-- the cost of two buckets of paint and some nifty Container Store shelves, which is just fine by me.
I haven't done much else this week-- just lots of watching my son breathe and researching childhood asthma. I've been educating myself on the terminology, treatments, and theories.
I even contacted our local asthma specialist and got her to come to OUR HOUSE and examine my son THAT day. (It pays to be pushy, people)
There's plenty of info out there, just not much in the way of a cure or prevention...
Since my son's asthma seems to be brought on by upper respiratory infections which are a permanent fixture of... you know, CHILDHOOD and completely unavoidable, there's apparently "nothing we can do about it".
The best we can do is "hope" he outgrows it and just accept it as "part of our lives" until then.
Well, I'm sorry, but I'm just too much of a control-freak mommy to buy that!
His doctor has put him on daily inhalers as a preventative. However, I'm not too keen on that either as they seem to come with some equally scary side-effects.
I've also read that something like one in FIVE kids suffers from asthma, so I guess that means at least one in five of you parents reading this post are dealing with this too.Any insights or support you could provide would be really helpful to me right now... even if it's just to tell me to get over myself already.
I'm a big girl. I can take it.
In the meantime, I'm going to get started on designing that bubble for us to live in and resign myself to a life of only having online friends...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Other things that have been overshadowed by the recent week's events, as if this post wasn't long enough...
OUR HOUSE IN TEXAS SOLD!!!! Yew-haw!
Oh yeah... did I forget to tell you? It was under contract for about a month, but seeing as the last "committed buyers" backed out a week before the closing, I wasn't about to hold my breath.
In talking with other American expats in London, we've learned that most opted to rent out instead of sell their homes in the States. We actually considered doing the same when a serious offer came in...
As much as we didn't like the idea of being absentee landlords, we hated paying that mortgage even more. Now, we don't have to do either one!!!
Now for the tacky details... We certainly didn't make a killing on the house, not that we expected that we would.
We got back about as much as we put into it-- the cost of two buckets of paint and some nifty Container Store shelves, which is just fine by me.
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I'm so sorry to hear about your son's asthma. My husband has been asthmatic since he was about 7.
When he was younger his doctors prescribed inhalers (bronchodilators) & he used them for years. (He's 43 now) These inhalers are supposed to be only used as "rescue inhalers" not maintenance drugs. Unfortunately long term use of the inhalers have caused heart damage! His current doctor switched him to the maintenance drug Advair & it has been a miracle for him. He rarely has asthma attacks...he only occasionally has some breathing issues if he has a cold, but never the kind that prompt any emergency room visits - just nebulizer treatments. Best of luck to you! Keep up the research & question your doctors to find the right solution for your son. Best wishes!
Get ready for the roller coaster of asthma.
Every season as soon as the weather starts changing, he gets sick. It starts with the running nose, then the distinct cough, then one night in the middle of the night...it starts...the wheezing..
Load up on Tyelenol Multi-Symptom. Sometimes if I start giving it when the symptoms start, I've prevented a full-blown Upper Resp. Infection.
You definately need a nebulizer. It's a mommy's friend. If he starts wheezing, we give the treatments right away.
Asthma sucks.
His asthma might also be triggered the weather and climate in the UK.
Hoping to help you out a little.
I'm sorry about the boy wonder having a hard adjustment with his asthma. That stinks.
Congrats on the house sell. I know that's been a pain to think about.
My husband seemed to have the same things (as a kid) that your son has. His mom's tips were:
-treat things at the first sign of a sniffle (she was kinda manic with that)
-watch the steroids...my husband/his mom swore by one that helped him but then it would grow less and less effective the longer he took it. He started worrying that he would run out of "extra strength" on his medications, so he tried some homeopathic remedies.--which helped with his allergy turned into colds turned into asthma.
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