Video for your enjoyment...

Yup...we are still sick here. Jacy is working on day 15 - still with a fever. I am working on day 10, of course, still with a fever. Tayelor just started last Thursday...boy, does she have so much to look forward to. This is simply the worst virus we have ever seen. To make matters worse, I am kicking off my show season this weekend...sick :(

So, while we continue to get better, here is a video for you to watch. Back in 1948, this seemed pretty far-fetched. Just watch.

I'm Still Here....

However, I was unfortunate enough to catch my son's cold. Achy, fever, chills, lungs hurt, runny nose, headache....

I never really got his asthma under control until Friday of last week. This is even with steroids that he started on Tuesday. Oh, Casto...that mechanical machine thingie is a nebulizer...Jacy needs one like your brother did. Regular albuterol inhalers don't work for him, his asthma is so severe. I did think he was going to have to be hospitalized on Friday, until his peak flow meter readings finally shot up. It has never taken him three days for the steroids to kick in before. Did your brother outgrow it? I wish Jacy would! Wow, this is a nasty little bug. May it pass by your house :)

I will have to take a few days off to recover. In fact, I'm crawling back into bed with my laptop and a steaming hot cup of peppermint tea (Stash's White Christmas, to be exact) and try to get caught up on some computer stuff. I hope you all have a great week until I see you again.

Got the Asthma Blues....

Oh, not me. I'm fine. It's my son.

He gets severe asthma when he gets a chest cold, and well, he has a chest cold. Therefore, asthma. I could not control it with peak flow meter readings and nebulizer treatments as I usually can, so he had to pay a visit to the doctors earlier this week. The result? He doesn't have bronchitis, just a chest cold. However, this cold is making it difficult to get control of his asthma, so he has to take a 5-4-3-2-1 course of steroids (prednisone). We started them Tuesday evening and his peak flow still isn't where it should be as of last night.

In turn, my staff meeting this past Monday has been all in vain, I think. I have not been able to tackle barely anything on the list, and I become frustrated! But then, I stop and think of how many jobs I got in so much trouble or actually fired from because of missing days due to my son's asthma. I then remember that I work for myself now and that I can always work double time next week to catch up. Then the frustration turns to gratefulness as I realize that I can take care of my son the way I am supposed to without fear of getting scolded or being put on probation when I get back to work. My priorities in life are God #1, husband and children #2 and then work is #3, and since I have been out of the mainstream work-force, I can actually uphold those priorities. I guess I need Jacy to have a bad bout of asthma every once in a while to remind me of that!