New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

[chickn]

oh the simple life, that is always the way, why why why?? so sorry about that,
thanks for the fair info though.

 

[spook]

I was in hopes to sneak away tomorrow and wander around the fair (its 45 min away) but instead have to go to the inlaws tomorrow (2 hours away) , not only that, I have to bake a pie!!! Grrrr. Oh well, that is what it is to have family.
Never knew what it was like to have more then 1 sibling, no aunts, uncles or cousins. Family events consist of any day that the neice or nephews were around.

Ah well, not ment to be.
Chickn- hows that boy of yours doing? Full of life I bet! You coming to Litchfeild?? Take it easy everyone!

 

[chickn]

spook,
he is doing much better thanks, recovering quick, he bounces back that one!!

no, its the same date as deerfield, wish it wasnt, but it is, maybe windsor on the 5th are you going to windsor?
i think for fun i may enter my favorelle roo, for fun, i dont expect him to win, i let my birds live a life, so he has to be washed but shows signs of running in grass, digging in dirt, etc,,lol

 

[spook]

Yes, I plan on being at windsor on the 5th, I have nothing to show, maybe someday I'll run with the big Chickens! See you then and give a poke at that boy, tell him to behaive and not to give the teacher guff (just kidding, he is a super kid if any of you don't know him).

 

[SpottedCrow]

Bummer Natalie...hope he feels better and you don't get it...

 

[the simple life]

Thanks everyone, I always have to worry about Aidan getting any kind of chest cold because he has croup and asthma and it throws him right into an attack.
Everyone else in the family can get a cold and get over it but most of the time for him he ends up with problems.
He went to a birthday party last night at the rec center and was fine.
He will sometimes wheeze a little if he runs too much but he was fine and didn't even act like he had a cold coming on. Two of my other sons have had a cold all week.
So I wake up this morning to hear this horrible seal like cough coming from his room.
He gets up and he is definitely heading for an attack.
Of course it scares him when he gets like this and it makes it worse.
But I gave him his inhaler and within a couple of hours he was breathing normally again.
You just never know how long its going to take. I was surprised it only took a couple of hours until it was cleared up, that is probably the easiest one we have had so far.
It always gets worse at night and in the wee hours of the morning, why is that? Has anyone else noticed that with kids, they are always worse at those times with any type of sickness.
It use to be that no matter what I did for him he would end up in the hospital emergency room to get it under control.
The doctors use to tell me to take him outside in the cold air, put him in a steamy bathroom. keep the humidifier going, etc. and I would always still end up in the hospital.
But now that he is older (6) he is doing much better with being able to get it under control.
He was doing so good too, going further and further between these episodes.
So hopefully he will go a while before this happens again.

On another note, someone on this board was telling me there is going to be a fair here in massachusetts next week.
Its in Bolton and she said they have a website, I just haven't looked it up yet, but I am going to check it out.
I am going to go apple picking that weekend too, but I should be able to squeeze it in if it looks like its going to be a good one.
I hope they have a good chicken tent there.
The Big E is going on too, anyone heading there?

 

[spook]

Quote:
Just to share something that a doctor once prescribed to me during my childhood with asthma and any lung issues going on was to sit me down with a cup (8oz) of hot coffee at the time of a Asthma attack, it can have milk and sugar, but preferably black.

1. you concentrate on sipping
2. heat relaxes the throat and spasms in the chest
3. humidity directly where it needs to be
4. caffeine will open up the airways
(5. for ADD ADHD caffeine is recommended)

This worked for both my brother and I in our childhood years decreasing the need for steroids that are harmful to the lungs, and some of the other medications that are needed. I AM NOT saying to stop meds, we all know better then that, but it may lesson the need for rescue inhalers.

As for stunting growth...don't even go there, I'm 5'7" and never mind the rest of the "non stunted growth", and my brother is 6'5" and not a small man.

Good luck and take care!

 

[the simple life]

Thanks so much for the advice. I was hopng as he got older he would improve, the doctors told me when he was a baby he had croup and that he would outgrow it.
He never did and now they tell me he has asthma.
I was originally told that it was exercise induced asthma and he would probably need an inhaler if he wanted to play sports when he was older.
When he over exerts himself he wheezes occasionally. Nothing major though.
When he was younger the doctor never prescribed an inhaler he would tell me to do all the other things like steam, cold air and all that and if he didn't improve he had to go to the hospital for a nebulizer treatment.
One time the nebulizer treatments didn't work and they had to give him two steroid shots to get it under control.
They said after that if this doesn't work then we don't know what else to do.
Just what a parent wants to hear about their two year old.
So thats how it went for about 5 years and then last year we saw a specialist that gave us an inhaler because he felt that the other doctors let his attacks go on too long and were taking too many risks.
So he has had the inhaler for the past year and luckily hadn't needed it. I thought, great he is outgrowing it.
But then yesterday, it started up again, so he used the inhaler for the first time and after he used it he was fine the rest of the day.
This morning however, I was awakened to him standing next to my bed saying Mama I can't breathe, its so hard to breathe.
Ahh, what every parent wants to hear.
So I gave him the inhaler again and it helped.
You are so right though, about relying on meds.
I was hoping he would never need it and it was more of a just in case type of thing.
So it was good to have for sure, but I would like to not ever need it again.
Have you ever heard of this stuff called Qvar? The doctor said that he could prescribe it for him but I want to look into it more.
He said that if you take it (inhaler form) every day during the sick season it could prevent him from having an attack but once the attack works it won't help.
The thing is I felt like he hadn't been sick for like a year and I would have been giving him meds everyday unnecesarily and maybe damage his body or something.
I always try to downplay these attacks for him so he doesn't panic.
I also don't want him to get into the mindset that he is sick or there is something really wrong with him if I give him medicine everyday as a preventative.
But then maybe this would not have happend to him this weekend.
I will try the caffeine trick for sure.
Thats funny that you mentioned the stunting the growth thing, I had heard that too.
I wonder how much you would have to take for that to even happen.
Don't all these muscle builders take steroids to get bigger?
The scar tissue in the lungs is what scares me.
I know that so far he has only had to use his inhaler this weekend, and then the times at the hospital but it is certainly something to consider.
I appreciate the alternative to try as well, it was nice of you to share.
Natalie

 

[ticks]

Oh wow, I kind of thoguht this thread died.

 

[the1much]

wait notha month,, snow will be flying,, people will be inside for 9 months,,hehe

EDIT: ta say,,, after i read that it looked a little

i MEANT they'll be inside where its warm spending the winter on the computer