Paige was diagnosed with mild asthma at age 3 and put on Flovent daily with an Albuterol rescue inhaler that we almost never use. I have long wondered if Flovent had an affect on her sleep. At first she seemed to have crazed energy and the doctor recommended going from 2 puffs to 1 puff daily, as long as the coughing was still eliminated. That is where we have been.
As this bad sleeping pattern began again, I started wondering about the effects of Flovent. I recommended to Rich that we take her back up to 2 puffs a day. We saved that for the last ditch effort. I'm here to say that after the first full day of having 2 doses, we have been wake-less for almost 2 weeks now. I do not feel that this is a coincidence. I do, however, feel so bad that we made this a behavioral thing when it was really a physiological thing. All I can do now is make sure that I examine those extraneous variables first (with all 3 kids) before approaching it from a behavioral angle. I have recently researched Flovent more carefully and did find that sleep disturbances and changes are a side affect. Eventually she will be off the medication and I'm sure that will be the best case scenario.
SUBJECT CHANGE:
Today's fun activity was setting up our Christmas Village! This has always been Paige and my job, but now with Will more trustworthy with breakables, he played a role. (After all, there is a car, a motorcycle and a police station, so it's cool). They had a GREAT time opening the boxes - just like, well, Christmas! Will would put things up and Paige would advise him where the correct position really was in her condescending but loving tone - lest we stray from how we've done it in years past. Here is the final product:
Today's fun activity was setting up our Christmas Village! This has always been Paige and my job, but now with Will more trustworthy with breakables, he played a role. (After all, there is a car, a motorcycle and a police station, so it's cool). They had a GREAT time opening the boxes - just like, well, Christmas! Will would put things up and Paige would advise him where the correct position really was in her condescending but loving tone - lest we stray from how we've done it in years past. Here is the final product:
2 comments:
hey, don't beat yourself up...we've just gone through the same thing (physiological vs behavioral). glad you've noticed a difference, though!
is that a dept 56 village? i didn't realize you collected those! looks like they had a good time.
kenny just helped my mom put up her village. he gets to "snow" it. i love that they like to do it now...i'm sure it won't be that way in a few years.
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