The Neb: A MicoPreemie Mom's Best Friend

Since starting school Mason's spent ALOT of time like this... It's frustrating, but hasn't been overly problematic until now. Last weekend I decided to take a sort of impromptu trip to Houston. My very pregnant best friend, Tam, and I were talking and we decided it would be fun to take Mason to the fair at the Rodeo to get his first Rodeo experience. Well, with the time change and drive it was a looong day. We didn't get to the Rodeo until pretty late - and the lines made for a less than ideal situation. But - we did manage to have some fun. Toward the end of our Rodeo experience Mason was pretty cranky. It seems that he had chosen this weekend to decide he was completely OVER going potty in his pants... he had a fit b/c he couldn't get to a little potty! I thought alot of his crankiness was related to the long day and maybe the smoke from the concession stands. When we got to my parents house I gave Mason a breathing treatment b/c he had started coughing quite a bit. He went to bed VERY late for him and we slept together that night so I know he didn't sleep well. He would cough and move all night- then he got up at 5:30. The next morning we did more treatments and the long & short of it was that he got so sick and was coughing so hard that he threw up... and threw up until he was dry heaving. NO FUN. Thank GOODNESS I didn't let Joseph talk me into detailing my car before I left! We drove back that night - a full day early - and it was the drive from hell... complete with Houston rush hr traffic and about an hr of construction traffic in the middle of nowhere. Just what you need when you are exhausted & have a very sick child with breathing difficulties in your backseat! Today we called the pulmonologist to see if we could get in, but no... it's Spring Break. They are booked solid. The soonest we could get in was Thurs morning.... what to do? 5 breathing treatments.... 3 pulmicort/xopenex and 2 mucamist/xopenex. Of course! That's pretty much ALWAYS what I'm told to do when Mason's really sick. So that's what we're doing... he's running a fever as well.. so it seems this is likely something viral... probably another thing Mason picked up at school. It's a good thing he's also picking up vocabulary, pronounciation and his colors!