A not so fun day...

Last night at 11:30 Mikenzie woke up coughing and wanting to come into my bed. Andrew had a random night shift (tonight too and then he's done~ its a grocery store and needs to be done "after hours") so I took her in bed with me. She kept me awake 2/3rds of the night as she could barely breathe, and constantly needed help with the asthma puffer and Nebulizer. We ran out of one of her puffers which seems to work well for her, but isn't supposed to "work" for a few hours to a few days after taking. The medicine that is supposed to help "right away" seems to take hours (at least 12 to kick in) so after a sleepless night, I canceled Kyleighs dentist appointment for today, and made an appointment for Mikenzie with the Asthma specialist.
She slept on the way there, and had improved on the drive, so the nurse said she thought Mikenzie "seemed healthy". Then the doc saw her, and also thought she seemed ok until he listened to her lungs and checked her pulse and something else (done through the finger, but not sure what it is) and then they found out she isn't getting enough oxygen, and needed oral steroids, some other drug, a few puffers, and a stronger medicine for her Nebulizer since the stuff we are using doesn't seem to help. The doc spent 1hr, 15 min with us, and ended up quite concerned.
The doc is pretty sure Mikenzie is Asthmatic all the time (yellow zone), but we/she doesn't know it since it's always been "normal". He figures that as soon as she gets any virus, she plummets down for the yellow zone (healthy non asthmatics are in the green zone) in to the Red zone, and that is why she reacts so badly, and get sick so fast.
We are going to start a "health plan" for her once she is done this bout, which will most likely have her on puffers every day.
I am VERY happy that once again, she is getting proper heath care, but is sucks casue she is still too young for the regular tests they do to determine how bad she is. As a result, it's more of a guessing game with doses and frequency.
Just so you get an idea of how bad she gets, she goes from talking normal sentences like normal kids to only being able to say a few words before having to take a breath again. Oh, and there is lots of crying, and what I sense as terror as she majorly struggles for every breath she gets.
Once home, she slept for 4 hrs while I sewed a Sleep Sack order cause "who knows what tomorrow will bring!" So hopefully she responds to the meds as she haas in the past, and makes a quick recovery.
Just thought I would update ya'll, and no we're not terrified for her or anything as this is pretty "normal" in our house. She is already coloring/playing with Kyleigh again, so we know she is on the mend!

Have a good night~next time there will be pics~ Karen

Haha

My little baking "helper" decided to help herself to what was in the mixer while I ran to help Andrew with something a minute. I got back to find her with a mouth full of flour 9which quickly turned in to paste) and couldn't resist having a picture taken of her mistake- flour= not good!

New pics for our room

It was a little hard to take pics of pics in a frame, but I think I managed! All of these~including the canvas, were taken by a friend of mine (masters touch photography) and Andrew and Myself. I picked up the frames at Ikea, and pulled some out of my stash. They were really a cost effective way to decorate our room. I love them! Finally things are coming together !

Towers and Toys

The girls have been quite busy building all sorts of towers and buildings. Here are a few of them.

Acording to M, the men were bad and needed to stand in the corner!

It's been a while!

Oh wow, I didn't realize it had been a month and a half sine my last Post! I have been quite busy seiwng, and actually reorganized the entire house. Yep, that meant getting rid of Garbage bags of stuff to 2nd hand stores, and posting things on Craigslist for some Moolah. It was a cleanser that's for sure! Now things aren't really back to the grind stone just yet; the holiday season has it's challenges, weather it's trying to head to town for a few things, and getting stuck in traffic (not used to that around here) trying to keep the house warm(getting hard with the wood stove and the cold weather:2:00 am wake up to stoke the fire may need to start soon) or deciding how busy we want to be this holiday season with family events, normal visiting friends on weekends etc. Plus the "do I make Christmas baking cause"tis the season" or not- we don't really eat baking, but I love making stuff! Hmm, give it all away?

I haven't been taking too many pics, not much going on here family wise, just a lot of sewing (for others) and organizing. So, I think I will part, and maybe see if I can scrounge up a fe pics to post. TaTa for now!