Choo choo train.

[marydell]

Charlie was sick last night.  He's sick a couple of times a month in the same way - coughing at bedtime leading to eventually throwing up, and then a restless night with more coughing.  Either it's reflux causing an asthma attack or asthma causing a reflux attack--we hope the stomach specialist can tell us.  Anyway, on nights like this he spends the later part of the night in bed with us, generally preventing us from sleeping by sticking his feet all over us or mushing a twitchy nerve in my back with the end of his short arm.  And there is fussing, and requests for ba-bas (granted), and requests for TV (denied) and then eventually falling asleep finally for an hour or two before it's time to get up.

This morning he was (finally) sleeping next to me and woke up blearily mumbling at me. "Mommy? Choo choo train, Mommy. Choo Choo train."  I agreed that yes, Choo choo train, and he smiled and went back to sleep.

God, I love that kid.

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I have both, and the doctor's never did determine which came first, chicken or egg. They said that in my case, in any event, it was a terrible vicious cycle of asthma meds worsening reflux, and reflux worsening asthma because the acid irritates nearby airways, and the need for more meds worsened the reflux.

They just treated the reflux, with prilosec. I don't know how that would work for Charlie at all and know nothing about its use with kids, but it changed my actual life. It was a part of that whole "miraculous drug shift" on August 10, 1999 that I'm always on about.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Interesting! We're giving him daily Tums until we see the stomach doc, and then we'll see about going back on Zantac, which he was on for his first year of life and which was great.

Albuterol does stuff to the esophageal sphincter, so it can make reflux worse, but it helps with dysphagia (swallowing problem), which I also have. Mostly it seems to help me overall, and the reflux happens from eating allergenic things. Delicious, delicous allergenic things.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You are all so lovely. And I do hope he feels better soon.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! We hope the latest heap of medicine will set him to rights by bedtime...

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor little guy. And poor parents, too. But OH! the cuteness.