Sleep is a commodity at our house...if you're an adult anyway. And it is even worst for daddy since mommy keeps sneaking in naps during the weekends. Ethan has been sick with a cold for about 3 weeks now and he has awoken us at least once almost nightly. He wakes up screaming because he is too congested to breathe. Sometimes he then has coughing fits and throws up mucous. It isn't his fault, but it sure makes it hard his parents to get a good night's rest.
Last night, it was Lorelei who kept us up longer. She has started to get a cold and is coughing a lot. She has a sore throat and the coughing woke her up in a panic. When we went to her she was shaking, crying and coughing. We tried to help her calm down, give her some Tylenol and even an inhaler to see if that would help her cough. I'd put eucalyptus in boiling water between the bedrooms earlier in the evening but nothing seemed to work. She just kept working herself up more and forcing her coughs (eventually to the point of being sick). She didn't have a temperature, so why the shaking?! She made a comment last night but then today we talked about it a couple times. She said she was shaking so much because she was scared. She did not want to die. :( She's somehow gotten it into her head that if she has a fever that means she'll be poisoned and die. I'm sure there is also some residual concern from Ethan's febrile seizure in September. I had to explain to her that typically a fever is the body's way of fighting germs, it can be a good thing. It certainly won't poison you, and if she was that sick we'd rush her to the doctor. She seemed better about it this evening, but it is sad that this is where her mind goes when she gets sick herself.
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