When oh when, will this all end????

Just when little Jesse's fever started to break and I was beginning to think he was on the road to recovery he began coughing in the middle of the night with that croup type barking cough and labored breathing. We've been down this road before so I knew the signs already; it's just been awhile and I didn't expect this.

Being a mother my ears are always open to my kids behaviors, even if I'm dead asleep to the world and a parade was walking through my living room; I'd still hear my kids above everything else.

Halfway sleepwalking I stumbled to the hall closet to get the nebulizer machine out, washed it all down (mask parts) then got the Albuterol. I set it all up before stumbling back to Jesse's bedroom to pick him up from his bed, sit him upright in the living room and giving him his much needed breathing treatment.

Then for the third time in just 5 days I removed his bedding and washed it all again. Thankfully little Jesse is old enough now to hold his own breathing mask up to his face while I worked on this but he was so tired himself that he often fell asleep while holding his mask. My heart went out to him.

Have you seen that commercial where the mother has her baby in the clear-see through bubble on the playground so he won't get messy? Well, this is how I feel just so little Jesse won't continue his sickness.

We went back to bed around 4 AM and are just waking back up today almost at noon....can you believe that? UGH! Will someone please tell me when this will ever end???