Okay, so my oldest daughter is a very severe asthmatic. She's been in and out of the hospital a ton of times and is on a twice daily dose of a preventative medicine, and so far it's done a pretty good job. However, she started last night not feeling well. She's got that asthmatic cough that sounds like croup and fell asleep at only 3:30PM yesterday and slept for over an hour, and didn't even want to eat dinner. She called from the nurse's office this afternoon not feeling well, but wanted to stay to the end of the day because they were doing a fun art project. Okay. I told her to rest for a few minutes, have some water, use her albuterol inhaler and go back to class - if she needed me, she was told to call and I'd get right there to pick her up. No big deal, this is pretty typical of our life.
Then she comes home from the bus - with a friend - "Can she stay for a while?". GRRRR. We've had this discussion many times about putting me in an awkward position to ask me with her friend right there on the porch to ask if she can play. I started to say no, but they both sat and pleaded, and the friend pulled the, "My mom has to run an errand but I have homework, can I stay here and do it?" card. So here she is. And Emily is still wheezing and playing when she should be resting.
GRRRRR!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment