Thursday, June 19, 2014
Surviving the first week
The first week was a bit rough to be honest. Kaylie's asthma started acting up. weather by the peanut dose, or her outdoor allergies, I'm not sure, but she struggled a lot this week, and I had to use her rescue inhaler multiple times. It scared me pretty bad, and triggered my anxiety. Her asthma is usually very mild, but because we had just started this peanut treatment, I was afraid she was going into anaphylactic shock. I woke up every night in the middle of the night in a full blown panic attack and had to go check on her to make sure she was still breathing and alive. When I told Dr. Jones about her asthma, he immediately put her on daily asthma medication to keep it under control during this OIT process. I am praying we will get the hang of this, and things will go more smoothly for us. But we did survive our first week!