Thursday, June 5, 2008

Asthma


Right before Olivia started battling her seizures, we were told that she may possibly have asthma. Yesterday I took her into the doctor for the second time in 5 days because of a chronic cough she has had for over 2 weeks now. She was actually having an asthma attack, wheezing and all, in the doctors office. She put her on the nebulizar and then decided to put her on a medication. She is on Singulair. It's a chewable pill that she takes once every evening. We also have a nebulizar machine and we have to give it to her twice a day when she's in episodes like this. Hopefully this singulair will help. She will have to go on an inhaled steroid if this doesn't help. I'd rather she didn't have to do that. At least not at this age. So we're just praying that this works. It's supposed to take a week to two weeks before it works. It seems to be worse at night. She's had an attack the past 3 nights. Last night at 1 in the morning and it was pretty bad. I've never really heard her wheezing and I actually could last night.

Other than that, she's doing good. She will be 15 months old on Saturday! People tell you the time goes by fast...but you really have no clue! She's running all over and climbing on everything. She is becoming quite the talker. Her words are: mama, dada, (dad, daddy) baby, duck, doggie, hi, bye, oh, balloon (aka: baboon- lol), pretty, up, & yes. I'm so suprised this girl doesn't say 'no' yet. haha.

Hope you guys are doing well! Stace-How is grama doing?