Spring has arrived. It is full of rebirth, blooming flowers and warmer weather. Unfortunately, to me, it is not beautiful. It is more like hell. I am struck down with spring allergies. Every morning I wake up with the aches and congested. I have to pull myself out of bed and take an allergy pill. It sucks!
Worse than my dilemma, is poor Maggie. She is having the sniffles, sneezes and itchy eyes of spring. I have started giving her the daily antihistamine. Of course, it is costing an arm and a leg but it is one that won't make her tired. To complicate matters, the allergies and post-nasal drip have sparked her asthma. So we have spent the last 3 days trying to stabilize it. I have added albuterol to her medication to try and change the flow of things.
Maggie is afraid of what will happen if she admits to having something wrong. We are battling her medical fears and I am trying to encourage her to be honest with me. The more she lets me know and the earlier, the easier it will be to tame the beast. I have explained to her that if she tells me (or her teachers, Dad, etc) that her lungs hurt, we can fix it before the coughing starts. Maggie is tentative but trying.
So here we are at the beginning of spring. The pollen has just started to head upwards. We are already battling and I feel like we are just keeping our head above water. How far away is summer?
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