Wednesday, October 28, 2009

clearing the air



I want to go to bed. I' m tired and I have to get up early, but upstairs, Tommy is coughing. His asthma is not happy with us. It's not terribly bad right now but I can tell that sometime in the night he will need a breathing treatment. I should just wake him up now and do it but I am loathe to if there is any chance that, by some miracle, this is as bad as it will get and there will be no quality time with the nebulizer in the middle of the night. I can't decide so I sit here listening to the coughs trying to gage their frequency and severity. I just want to let him be, let him have his dreams and his peace. I guess I can listen just as well from the comfort of my bed and pajamas. Hopefully the coughs will drift towards nothing and we can all rest easy.

4 comments:

Linn said...

I'm so sorry. Whenever my kids have a bad cough, I seem to spend my whole night listening to them. I can't imagine doing it on a regular basis. Hope it all calmed down and he didn't need a treatment.

Malea said...

Sorry. I don't know who it sucks to be worse. Him your you. I hope you both can get some rest from this sometime in the near future.

Emz said...

Asthma is the worst. Hoping you BOTH got some sleep. ;)

3StinkyBoysAndMe said...

I'm hoping too the coughs drift toward nothing and you all rest easy.