A calm day

I know I said I would update this blog everyday when I started it 7 months ago. I had no idea how busy my life would become after I started it. Our youngest daughter is 3 years old. Right after we started this blog, she had tubes put in her ears for chronic ear infections. She always seemed to have a cough with those infections, so I new for sure that would go away. But it didnt.....so we started seeing the allergy doctor in our community to see if he could figure out why she was coughing so much. The diagnosis that came to us in November, was Asthma.
Unfortunately, I dont think that is what she has. Every ASthma medication that she has been given, does nothing for her cough. AND, she only coughs when she has a runny nose which is 90% of the time. My mommy diagnosis is that she is post nasal drip or sinus issues....which when it drains, causes a tickle in her throat and that causes her to cough. Once she gets to coughing, nothing stops her until she vomits up all the snot, and then she is good for the night. But getting to that point is horrible to watch as well as see your child in pain.
At her appt this last week since she started coughing again, the doctor gave her a nose spray that is for allergies/colds. It dries out the nose within 30 minutes and lasts for 6 hours. There are no side effects and it is not addicting. It is interesting. And it WORKS. which makes my mommy theory that much closer to being true. She has been on it since Wednesday night and has not coughed at all. So, we have an appt with an ENT doctor in a few weeks to explore the sinus area and see if that is really the cause of her coughing. I am ready to get her off all the steroids that her body does not need and ready for her to have a normal 3 year old life of playing and sleeping good after a long day and then not have any night coughing. I know we will get there, but for now, while we go through this trial, my blog posts are few and far between and I will do my best to get better. My kids are really funny right now and I need to get better about posting that :)