A Little Scare

Tonight we had our Christmas party with my dad's family at my grandmother's house. It was a fun time. Towards the end of the night, my mom took Lydia into the bedroom to feed her her medicine (Nexium)...a few minutes later, she called out to us frantically. Lydia had started to choke and gag on her medicine and it looked as if she stopped breathing a couple of times. She was doing sort of the same thing that she's done a few times in the past couple of days, but she was having more trouble catching her breath. She's been so congested that it is causing these gagging and choking fits. The good news is that now she can take some medicine for it...the dr's were not allowing us to give her anything for the congestion because she is so young. They said that the new guidelines are to avoid decongestants until age 2. I took Lydia and Elise to the dr's office today to check them out before the holidays to make sure that they didn't have any real sickness besides a cold. Dr. Ramey confirmed that they both just have really bad colds. He also said that since the humidifier, suctioning, and inclined bed position are not really helping, we could go ahead and give her some Benadryl. She's had two doses so far...I think it is helping...kind of hard to tell. Anyway, she is sleeping well now...still very loud breathing, but she seems to be at rest. Please continue to pray for our girl. Martin said tonight (and I agreed) that sometimes we wish we could just fast-forward about a year to get through all of these scary, painful ailments. It is so hard to watch her in pain and so scary to feel a little helpless. Jory said tonight that he has never seen anyone as stopped up as she is now. My poor baby. And, of course, her feedings are not going as well. Just like all of us, I think she has less of an appetite because of the sinus drip. I was trying to get her to take more than 2 oz tonight...with no luck when Martin said..."I think we can give her a break. Anytime your mom says, "Do you think I should call 911?" I think we can let it slide if the next feeding doesn't go as well." I guess he has a point.