Mikayla and her neb..

In December 2003, Mikayla acquired bronchitis. Even though she was on oral medicine to treat this, the cold moved further down her chest and they diagnosed her as having bronchiallitis. She was hospitalized for a day for observation since her oxygen count was low. Ever since then, we have used a nebulizer when needed as a preventive measure. For some reason, when Mikayla gets a cold, it settles in her chest. So as soon as we notice cold symptoms, we start treatments. Typically this happens in November and December.

Mikayla has been coughing and has had a runny nose this past week, so we have been giving breathing treatments. Today, in the middle of one of her treatments, she looks at me and says "I told you". So, curios as to what she had told me, I say "what?". She said "see, I'm not coughing any more". She doesn't like taking her treatments any more because she has to stay still so long! Her other new phrase with this or anything else she doesn't like (mostly foods and drinks) is "I can't like it"! It sounds really cute with her strong southern accent, especially since usually we get her to try whatever it is she "can't like". With her treatments though, we explain that we are sorry she doesn't like it but we have to do them to make her cough go away. This usually works until today when she decided that she was no longer coughing. Needless to say, we finished the treatment anyway!