Thursday, June 3, 2010

Asthma again

Two days ago Kelsea woke with a runny nose.... not thinking too much of it {Eamon's was worse} I thought it would pass in a few days. But Today i took her to our GP {had to go to Westbury!} only to find out she has a chest infection {which I suspected} and having asthma attacks. This is the third time this year that she has had an infection and asthma straight away follows. Its a pretty scary thing for a little kid to get though she is really good about it all and sits very still while having her puffers. I think she will have to be on the preventer puffer all winter long to try and ward off any more attacks. She is also on antibiotics and prednisolone for a few days. Rushed home to get it at the chemist to only wait for 20 mins then be told it would take another 20 mins for it to be ready - should have used to local one at Westbury!!

We think that our house in contributing to her bad health. ALL three bedrooms, the bathroom and the toilet {which has an open vented window} all have mould. Jared got a suit Jacket he hasn't worn for a while out of the closet to find it COVERED in mould. So needless to say we are constantly looking for a new place!

BUT good news! After thinking our health care card had be cut off - today I received a new one in the mail! {two days too late for the $300 dental trip Jared had to make on Monday - if it was today he would have had it out for free....it was $1700 to have it fixed so he couldn't do that :( }

4 comments:

Bride said...

oh man, asthma isn't nice, especially kids! hopefully it will be something she grows out of!
cool you got to see Anne, and catch up! i can't wait to see them all when we are down in a few weeks

The Kings said...

I hope you find somewhere new to live really soon Bec! Hope Kels feels better soon.
Good news about the health care card. I just found out today I'm no longer able to get Carer Payment so we lose my pension card :( Totally sucks.

Anonymous said...

NO! That sucks, get out of that place! Hope Kels gets better quick.

Hannah Challis said...

Oh poor Kels. We had mould on the top floor of our place in England - which was our bedroom. Mick gets minor asthma every now and again, but we found he was getting it pretty much every other night during winter as the mould along the ceiling got worse. It sucked, and was horrible for Mick. We would clean it off and it would be there again the next day. You gotta get out! lol