Talkin' 'bout my demographic.
A long, unpleasant weekend. John fell and took a nasty bump on the head Thursday night. Friday morning he woke up and seemed fine, but he puked twice. As far as I know, he's never even puked once, so this was upsetting for Sonya and I. Add in that vomiting is a symptom of concussions and John ended up going to the doctor on Friday.
The doctor didn't think the bump on the head was a big deal, but she was worried that he still had a little bit of cough that's been clinging to him for the past few weeks. She sent him home with an albuterol inhaler. "Albuterol" must be the scientific name for "crack," because it made the boy crazy. He wouldn't sleep or eat baby food - he just wanted to suck on bottles and cry. Very sad. He was better last night - we only gave him one hit off the inhaler yesterday. We figured the coughing at least didn't make him miserable, right? So we had fun.
But it wasn't bad! True, it was probably John's worst weekend since he was born, but it wasn't horrible. We watched lots of movies and cooked and ate. I made some extra-good spicy potato salad. Even Sonya liked it and she doesn't like potato salad.
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ah the wonders of "Albuterol"... Shelby took that when she was about six months old for "wheezing"... we only gave her about 2 doses (she drank the stuff instead if inhaling - talk about drunky J!)no sleep for her... nope just misery - I hope he feels better soon :)
Albuteral's good stuff-- it's the most common (AFAIK) treatment for asthma, since it's a bronchial-dilator-- it works *fast*, especially when you're having trouble with the exhaling. Pretty much every doughy nerdboy, such as myself, has had an albuteral inhaler from time to time.
When I was a kid, not an infant, mind you, but a kid nonetheless, and I was having trouble breathing (related to a cough, pneumonia, or any of the other respiratory problems I had throughout my childhood), my parents would slip me a screwdriver. I wasn't normally an OJ drinker, so I didn't know the difference, and man, it did wonders. Calmed me down, got me to relax (which helps the most to loosen up the chest), and usually knocked me out.
Now it takes several to get anything resembling the same effect, hmm.
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