Oh bollocks, DD1 in casualty, tearing hair out here!!!

[Beenleigh]

DD2 and I have had horrid cough for a week which DD1 (23 months) has resisted until tonight. She has problems with her chest and the most innocuous colds affect her quite badly, but in her, our chesty cough has morphed in to some hideous bastard chest bothering nastiness, and DH has taken her in to A & E. They say she needs a nebuliser, but taking ages to process her as so busy at A & E, and I'm tearing hair out here. Only reason I'm not there is that I CAN'T BLOODY DRIVE!!!! AAAHHHHHH! Have just booked my theory driving test.

You're right, she was up all last night being terribly entertaining, giving her sister books at 2am, so DH very tired, and had been asleep for 10 minutes when I asked him to take her, poor thing. I think I must be tired too, but tbh can;t remember what it feels like not to be tired so I might not be!

gad I remember those kinds of nights

LOL - anyone remember not being tired???

tonight, first time for 15 years, I'm not tired!! tee hee. DD1 is away at boarding school and this is the first weekend she hasn't come home - only 2 dc's in the house .

Sorry been, hijacking.

Any news from a&e?

Nocturnal knackered mumsnetters club... should we invent a thread of our own??
Hope you've gone chilling out Been - tho suspect not
I ditto hope you get an update soon(and tell us too)

hijack away !
She's got croup, they didn't x-ray, but have given her some sort of steroid medicine which she needs every 12 hours. They've said not to go to any play groups until she's better as she may get stressed from having too much fun and running about, so it's baking and painting in the Beenleigh household for the next couple of days. How contagious is she? They said we should keep her away from babies but didn't seem too worried really. Guess it's one of those air born things that are impossible to contain.

Was so worried, she had bronchiolitis last year and it was very frightening, thought it was going t o be the same again, but thankfully not. Her chest is recessing though.

what's it like then, not being tired? It sounds interesting

Sounds like she's got the lung-toughening steroid stuff? hey ho my DS is on that for the winter as well. Brown-inhaler-medicine he calls it. I explained it like that to him and now the title has stuck i should have thought of somethin a little more 'catchy' eh?

Is beeny-baby on her way home with dad?

I do hope you have some hair left, and maybe as the news sounds promising you can also get a rest. Can she sleep somewhere in your room so you don't keep getting up as worried mums do all night? If DH is that knackered he'll sleep like a log (and good luck to him!)

I'm off now as DD is coughing will look in again tomorrow if you fancy putting an update on - time for me to stick a watch on this thread

wishing you all a boring peaceful night

oh good, so are they on their way home then?

I have to say, and this is not to make you suffer, that an uninterrupted night's sleep is total and utter bliss!

Talking of which think I'm off now - still got to get up in the dark for the younger two to get ready for school.

Sleep well all of you

SO glad to see she was on her way home last night.

I do hope your had a reasonable night when she got home. The steroids will really help soon.

Thank you for lovely messages, felt a lot better after talking to you. They got back just after one, and she sounded awful all night, but slept very well, and seems ok now, although she still sounds like she's been smoking about 30 gauloise a day for a decade! So, hopefully she'll be ok in a couple of days. Phew!
Don;t know what I'd have done without mn last night. THANK YOU!!!

thanks, have to give her some more at lunchtime, so fingers crossed that will finish it off. Thanks x

That's good news, beenleigh! I hope she makes a swift recovery

glad she is on the mend. Bronchilits makes them more prone to chest probs. My dd has been fine for 4 months, but was in for 2-4 days at a time every other week for most of winter Make sure you get a good follow up appointment as she may need some help over the winter keeping her chest nice and strong. Poor you being away from her, well done for being so strong

Oh now I have visions of baby Beenleigh talking like Mariella Frostrup So glad to hear she's on the mend x

lol, she sounds EXACTLY like Mariella Frostrup!

. several kids at dc's school have been similarly affected. Hope she is ok today.

GEt well soon baby Been. My own baby Bean had severe bronchiolitis at 4 weeks, this time last year..and had a floppy larynx..I live in dread of RSV, croup, etc this winter. I hope you get some decent nights' kip to help you recover from the stress

thanks for the update! this is the first thread i wanted to see 2nite!
Hope the medicine works well and gives her the boost she needs to get fixed. Each setback is awful at the time but we find each year they get bigger and stronger so it's slightly less terrible. Well, either that or we just get more used to it

You take care as well Beenleigh - after all that stress last night it will really hit you tomorrow. Get whatever break you can (ha ha i know 2 small ones) and if they sleep in the day make sure you do too!! It's called survival

Thanks gigglewitch, that's lovely. Am taking your advice ang=d going to bed NOW!!! xxx

How's DD1 mending? Beenleigh any less worried? you need lots of boring uneventful nights in your house now. Update if you get chance??

Hi Gigglewitch,
lol, boring and uneventful it is not, but much less worried, thankyou '. DD2 in good spiirits, but still very chesty. Doctor prescribed a salbutamol inhaler yesterday. He wouldn;t be pinned down about diagnosing asthma, although it seems obvious that this is what he thinks. She then developed a temperature last night, but was still full of beans through the night, and of the first time since she was tiny, she (eventually) slept in our bed. Very sweet, but very knackering. Temperature much better today. Think she's winding down from it all now. It;s nice you thought of us xxx

Oooh, just re read and realised that you have 2 dc with asthma, how frightening! would love to pick your brains properly at some point, but was wondering, how old were they when they were diagnosed?

hee hee diagnosing. Now there's a good laugh. And this is going to be one huge ramble so you'll have to play spot the useful stuff

DS2 - born with a wheeze, labelled a "happy wheeze" basically referring to the idea that he made an awful noise breathing from day one (i didn't sleep at all that first night after he was born cos of his wheezing, was blardy knackered) Being my second (obv) i knew it wasn't a 'good' noise for a baby to make. Lots of colds from 10 days old onwards, holding breath, hyperventilating, the works. ventolin prescribed at 4wks old (!!?!) generally hopeless with every cold germ that came into town, you know the deal there don't ya? Anyway they gave in when he was admitted to hosp at 13mo, put him on brown inhaler, wrote asthma on the notes and saw much improvement. He's now 4, winters are the worst for him, so we're at asthma clinic every 6-8 weeks at the mo to keep on top of it. Fingers x'd doing ok just now.

DD, hey no wheeze at birth, three weeks early & born December. No probs over winter. This is looking fab. Easter arrived and the most appalling noise came from DD's chest. honestly, you can hear her in the next room! went to GP, sent straight to hosp, thus several hosp admissions (same one as DS, they are fab) and she was given a green inhaler because she was so young & very small for her age; they tried ventolin to start with but it didn't appear to do anything and this is sometimes the case on small ones. Anyway - i ramble. They put her on Beclazone 100 - higher dose of brown than her big bro! It has done the job, we don't have to rely hopelessly on ventolin (she went back on to blue inhaler this year, prob about 16mo and it works for her now). They "diagnosed" her asthma mainly because of the dreadful noisy breathing and the fact that brother has it, and she is also covered in eczema but it is fairly mild and controllable. We find that the two things 'kick off' together, it seems this is also quite a common thing that something sets off both at once, and at other times you can control both reasonably well.

Dunno if any of this helps - and i think i know where you are heading... we heard GP's among others say that they couldn't diagnose asthma as such until at least 2yrs but when you have a small gasping child it seems bl##dy obvious eh?

I don't think i can MN fri to sun as we have a mad weekend ahead... i'm [email protected] if you would like to be in touch away from mn. maybe we can survive our children's asthma woes together

Hi Gigglewitch, hope you're still looking at this thread. I shall hunt you down if not . I though I'd leave you over the weekend, as DD seemed SO much better on Friday morning, and though would give you a rest .

Thank you so much for your post, it's really interesting, and packed full of useful information. You've been a huge help, I've really appreciated your help and support, it's made a big difference . I have an appointment with the resident asthma specialist at our surgery, but am thinking of cancelling as DD not wheezing at all now, and feel like it may be a waste of time. I guess that in a way I can;t do much until/unless (fingers crossed) it happens again, but I feel far better equipped to deal with it if it does, and actually having the inhaler does make me feel a bit less neurotic about it iykwim. I have always assumed that DD will have asthma, OH had asthma as a child, and there is a lot of it on my side of the family.

It must be so stressful for you, especially at this time of year. I really feel for you, it's a nightmare. I've always known about my brothers asthma experiences, but never really understood just how dreadful it must have been for my parents until having dds. How do you cope!?

Is gigglewitch your permanent name or is it just a festive jobby? It's ace!

If I can ever be around to help or support you through any asthma woes, then please let me know.

Hope you had a lovely weekend.
x