Huffin' Albuterol

So Maddy had a real full blown asthma attack yesterday. She came home from school really wheezy and coughing. I gave her a hit from her inhaler and it did help a little, but only for an hour or so. She really was pretty bad. Wheezing in between words when she talked. Poor thing. Finally at 7:30 at night I am convinced to take her to the doctor. There is a pretty cool pediatric urgent care about 10 miles from here so I took her there.

We go in and I'm signing the sign in sheet and making a note of the names ahead of us so that I can tell how much longer we have to wait and the lady asks "What is she here for?" I say "She is having some trouble breathing." and the lady jumps up and runs in the back. She brings out the monitor that you put on your finger that says the oxygen levels in your blood. It says 86. I don't know what it is supposed to be but I know that is low. Once when we were vising Lori in the hospital Larry put one on his finger and his level was 98. Anyways, so she goes in the back and then right away this guy comes into the waiting room and asks for her. I was surprised and all "who? her!?" They take another reading with the finger machine and he sticks his head out of the nursing station and says to someone "Get her in first". I was kinda freaking out at this point. I've never ever just gotten right in like this.

The doctor comes in and sets her up on a breathing treatment. I have no clue how long she sat there but it seemed like quite awhile. Maybe 20 mins. Breathing through this tube. When she came off I could tell she felt a lot better.

They gave us a nebulizer to take home and I have to give her a breathing treatment every 4 hours. I had to wake her at 2 am and give her one.. then I let her sleep til 7. Shoot me. I just couldn't get her up early after such a crazy night. I have to go to school to give her another one and then she will get one right before trick or treating tonight, (Happy Halloween by the way) and then again before bed. Hopefully that will fix her. She still woke up all wheezy this morning.

The nebulizer they gave her is pretty cute. It has a fish face mask and fish stickers to decorate it with. And a book about a fish who has asthma. So we read the book while she is wearing her fish mask. She likes that.

Oh I forgot.... While we were at the urgent care we are waiting in our room and the door was open and I hear a mom say to her kid. "You won't put anything in your ear again will you?" LMAO... I had to laugh. but not too hard cause I know that will be me and Connor in about 6 months.

A trip to the orthodontist.

So I went to the orthodontist today. First off let me say that his office was so cool. They had a movie theater, video games, and Ipods. Ok, well, I spent $300 for a retainer to keep my bottom teeth from moving more, which hopefully will also keep the top ones from moving. The word braces was hot on everyone's lips but no way. That memory is too fresh (even after 15 years) to get braces again.

ok, but enough about me...
Maddy can now make her own peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Very cool! She packed her own lunch today for school. If she had a better internal clock I wouldn't even have to get up with her in the morning. She can get herself ready for school, but she would either be at the bus stop before dawn... or miss it all together.

And Connor can now open doors all by himself. We had to go get those covers for the door handles. He thinks they are balls though (the covers). He thinks were are playing a funny trick on him...putting balls on all the door handles, silly momma.

What else? I think that's it.....
Tomorrow is Halloween. I can't believe it!

Say aaaaaah

So Maddy had a drs. appointment yesterday. Fun fun. She did really well in everything. She weighs 53 lbs and is 46 inches tall. I think that means she can ride just about everything at Disneyland. I should go find that out.

Anyways, we had to see a new doc cause her regular doc couldn't see her until MARCH! and even then she doesn't have after school appointments. Which I was pretty frustrated about. The lady on the phone could tell I was mad, I was like just never mind then. But I wanted to say "I will just go find a pediatrician who will see CHILDREN!" I mean hello! Kids go to school, seems like you would take that into account when setting up your scheduling. But I didn't want to freak out in case I couldn't find anyone else. :) I didn't want to have to call back and be all "Umm, remember that March appointment at 1:30? Yeah, I'll take that."

I got the list of doctors on my insurance and called every one until I found her new doc. Who, by the way, got her in the very next day at 4:00.

ok, so this does have a point. The new doc heard some wheezing in her lungs. So Maddy now has a fancy new inhaler. Yeah, she's cool like that! Maybe now the neighbor's kid won't be able to beat her in a race, running backwards in flip flops... while Maddy rides her bike. (no joke!)

Welcome

ok, so I'm 'going public" with my blog. Might as well right.

And to get things off to a great start I have awesome news.

Maddy got student of the month!

Awww. I'm so proud of her!

They do the six pillars of character here. I don't know if that is a national thing or just around here but each month they focus on a different trait. This month was trustworthiness.

Each class picks one student that displays that months trait. So she got it for trustworthiness.

How cute! She gets to have a pancake breakfast with the principal on Halloween. I am SO proud.