ASTHMA....

That's what the doctors say. It all started last Friday, M came home with what we thought was a cold. The next morning she woke up and was fine, so we just figured it was allergies and went on with our Saturday. We went to our friends house for a barbecue, she swam and had a great time with her friends (I will post those pictures later). Sunday morning she woke up and Mike and her went outside to wash his ATV and truck. She came in saying that she was tired and didn't feel good, and we thought she was just tired from the party as she went to bed late and woke early. She was coughing a lot and said her tummy hurt, again we just thought her tummy hurt from coughing. She spent the rest of the day on the sofa with the occasional break to play with C. We noticed that she was breathing heavy and wheezing. I planned to take her to the doctor in the morning to have her checked out. I slept with her that night and could not stop watching her breathe and her tummy going in out so rapidly. She woke up at 1am complaining that her tummy really hurt and she could not sleep. I called the doctor and they said to rush her to the ER/Children's Urgent Care. So off M and I went (Mike stayed home with C) to urgent care. There they said her oxygen level was a little low and she did appear to have a hard time breathing so they gave her a breathing treatment and sent her home with her own breathing treatment machine. The doctor said it seemed that her cold ended up in her lungs and that after a week of breathing treatments she should be fine and that her tummy hurt from breathing so hard. We got home around 4am and she fell right to sleep. When Mike woke me up at 7am we noticed that she was struggling to breathe again. I called the pediatrician and they said to rush her in. The doctor and staff were wonderful, they were waiting for us and and took great care of her. M's oxygen level was 92, normal is 95 and above. They gave us several prescriptions and wanted to see her back on Wednesday. To make a long story short, we saw the doctor on Tuesday (another breathing scare) and then on Wednesday and the doctor said that based on other wheezing episodes that we had noted in the past couple months that they are treating M for asthma and will re-evaluate her in 30 days. It is so hard seeing her with the mask on for her breathing treatment, but she is doing great with all the medicine, we could not be more proud of her.