Kaylee

Gotta love this girl. She has had a tough few weeks. Two weeks ago she came home from the neighbor's house coughing non-stop. We started to give her some of Claire's asthma treatments to calm her down. By 3am that night she was totally out of control and we took her to the emergency room. We were there until 6am she was given steroids and lots of TLC from the adoring male nurse and doctor. They loved her, and she loved them asking when she could go back to the hospital. Not thinking the opportunity would come so soon. Four days later she came home from the neighbor's house again coughing and within 20 minutes her eyes swelled up like a balloon. We concluded Kaylee was allergic to cats. Drugged up on Benadryl and allergy eye drops it took her eyes two days to go back to normal. That was a Monday and on that Thursday I came downstairs because she was screaming and I found her with her hands covered in blood holding the back of her head. She had fallen and hit the back of her head on the brick fireplace. Head wounds bleed like crazy! It was a little cut only about 1/2 inch long. After getting second and third opinions from daddy and a neighbor we decided since her cut could "talk" it wouldn't close on it's own and we headed to the doctor's in her blood soaked dress to get her three blue stitches. And to top it all off that Saturday she woke up struggling to breathe again. While I was at my brother's graduation from law school, Damon gave her four asthma treatments, and when I got home she was struggling hard. So by 4pm she and daddy were off to the after hours care at our doctor's office. At 7pm Damon called me at my brother's graduation party to tell be that she was going to be taken by ambulance to Children's Hospital. They gave her a shot of steroids at the doctor's office but her heart was racing and her breathing was bad. I left the other two girls with my mom at the party and went to meet Damon and Kaylee at the hospital. They got her breathing under control, and finally released us at 2am. Through all of this she has gained two new stuffed teddy bears from the hospital and ambulance staff, a set of chest x-rays that she couldn't wait to share at preschool, and two hospital I.D. bracelets she is very proud of. Well she has had a tough few weeks but nothing seems to slow her down. What a trooper! This girl keeps life exciting.