First Christmas and into a New Year

Elizabeth was largely a spectator to Christmas this year. She took it all in with aplomb.



That cold she had on the last post turned into a big, noisy cough with a lot of rumbling in her lungs. It was an awfully big cough for such a little girl. It was keeping me up at night. I'd lie there listening to her breathing and occasionally gagging and/or throwing up in her bed. It seemed to help for her to sleep face down on my chest. (And that, I didn't mind a bit)

The first cold left, seemingly only to be replaced by another, and then another.

For a while there, the coughing was bad enough that she'd end up barfing up anything she'd eaten, so we took to feeding her half-bottles so they'd stay down. This kept her going, but it didn't give her a chance to gain any weight. Lately, when we feed her she'll sometimes eat well, but then cough up her meal with a load of accumulated phlegm. Then we just feed her again and it usually stays.

A little while back, Mum took Wee Liz in to CHEO for a chest x-ray. They were there for a long time before they X-ray tech came back and said they could leave. Apparently it's not easy to distinguish between a bad X-ray and a good X-ray of bad lungs. :-( (sigh) Very soon thereafter, her pediatrician put her on a 2nd puffer for the winter. It seems to be helping, and she he seems to be throwing off the cold again. Hopefully she'll get a break before the next one.

(This post created in January but not published until March!)