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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Its that time of year....

Yep its that time of year... and no i'm not talking about turkey, Christmas shopping, baking and carols, I'm talking about the unfortunate time of the year when all of the flus, colds and other sicknesses start circling around. It is official they have hit our house. It seems they have hit my 13 month old so bad she can hardly catch a break! She picked up a cold this week along with a double ear infection on top of eczima and cutting 3 new top teeth! Needless to say we are pulling a whole lot of all nighters over here. She was weezing pretty bad yesterday so we went to the pediatrician's office and they put her on a nebulizer (which she hates).

My poor angel has to be on it for 30 minutes every 4 hours! She has been in great spirits despite all of these awful circumstances. She has been playing and talking and running around like a mad women! With all of this going on it looks like my week is going to look a little something like this:

6am Nebulizer and Meds
630 Pack lunches
645 Get big brother out the door and on the bus
7 breakfast for Maddie
730 Clean up after breakfast
800 Give Maddie a bath
930 Maddie morning nap
10am Nebulizer and meds
Luandry, dishes etc. while she sleeps
12 Maddie lunch
1230 clean up after lunch
2 Maddie afternoon nap
230 nebulizer and meds
230pm get big brother from bus
3 homework, snack, clean up
4 start dinner
5 dinner
6 clean up after dinner
630-730 baths bed nebulizer meds
11pm nebulizer meds
3am nebulizer meds

Repeat

hmm some things im missing from there... my shower? lol

Anyways I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday everyone!!!! Stay warm and healthy!!!










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6 comments:

Tiffany said...

Your poor daughter. I hope that she is feeling well again soon. I also hope that you hang in there and are able to keep it all together. Stay strong, you are a wonderful mother! I hope you are able to rest a little too, oh and shower! Ha.

Marissa said...

oh poor thing...my son used to hate doing those treatments, we'd have to hold him down and I'd usually end up in tears! Hope she gets well soon and you guys stay healthy!

Stephanie said...

Wow...my son has asthma and has to do breathing treatments every day, Pulmicort, even when he's not sick as a preventative. Those are only about 7 min. long though. He has to have more when he actually is sick....but even then...it's usually a 7 min. Pulmicort followed by Albuterol, another 10 min. But as long as he's in front of the TV, he's good. I used to do it in his bedroom, sitting with him in the rocking chair. And he hated it...cried the entire time. Then it dawned on me to give it to him with Dora or Diego on...worked like a charm! LOL! Good luck!

Jen at Cabin Fever said...

Aww. poor baby!
I hope she feels better and I hope you get to squeeze in a shower. That is one grueling schedule!

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Lucy said...

Oh hun, hope the sickness eases soon and you also get a break!

Tiffany said...

I know how you feel. When my daughter was 2 yrs old she was put on the nebulizer and it was torture on both of us. She fought it and I had to hold her down to get her to do it.
Your little one looks like she's taking it ok. Hang in there on the every 4 hours, 3 am? Yikes!

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