We hate RED air days!!!

Julles has Asthma, and with the air quality being "red" for the past week, she has been having a plethera of breathing treatments. She has two inhalers. A really strong steriod called Flovent, that she usually just takes once a day when she has wheezing, and another that she has every 4 hours on those "wheezy" days. Well, since she has been coughing so much, she has had to have the steriod one twice a day and the other every 2-4 hours!

If any of you have ever had bronchitis or any other breathing problem, you've been givin Albuterol. It tastes HORRIBLE!!! Well, Julles doesn't know which one does what, but she always vouleteers to use the steriod because in her words, "dis one is tastey mommy" and when it comes time for her Albuterol she says, "dat one is nassy mommy!" I always tell her that she has to have it so that she can breathe and run and play without coughing... like a three year old understands that... and she always says to me after I tell her that she is coughing and coughing... "NO I'N NOT!!!" Poor baby... I wish she didn't have to have the nassy one!

On the "nassy" and "tastey" medicine front, she also is on an antibiotic, the pink kind that smells like strawberries and bubble gum, and a cough medicine with codine in it. She has to have the "tastey" one twice a day, and the cough medicine at night so she doesn't puke in her sleep! She always gets prepared for her nightly med EVENT. She has to get a water bottle in her hand, and I tell her that she should take her cough medicine first... because it is the "nassy" one, and then take the "tastey" antibiotic... but she doesn't get my logic of the fact that the "nassy" taste won't be around so long, so she takes the better of the two first, and the "nassy" one last and then chugs water trying not to gag!

Tonight was her lucky night... the asthma treatment helped her cough enough that she didn't have to take the "nassy" cough medicine.... but Beene started hacking... looks like she's next on the "nassy" medicine list! Maybe she'll take my logic into consideration!