Asthma Update

I bring Zilla to my own pediatrician who is an expert in children and asthma.  He asks in his thick Russian accent, "What is happening?"  I tell him about my visit the day before to the pulmonary specialist and he smiles and says, "Let me take a look."  He listens to Zilla for a good long while.  I tell him that Zilla told me that he gets dizzy and tired when running.  He says his lungs are "perfectly normal."  (and I cannot tell you how much I wish you could hear this accent).  He said there were a few possibilities;

• exercise induced asthma
• anemic
• just hasn't learned how to regulate himself yet

We are going to try a program of albuterol when he's getting ready to be HIM and then not giving to him to see if we see a difference.  It needs to be a remarkable difference. If not, we draw some blood to see if he's anemic.  If not there, we assume that he just pushes himself too much and has to pause to take breaks.  As he matures he'll be better able to balance it all out.

Princess has been a daaahling and taking her meds with ease everyday.  The first night she woke up yelling at 3.  The second night she slept all night.  I wasn't sure if she actually slept all night so I asked my husband when he got home from work.  He assured me that she did. 

Cool.  But, not sold yet.  If she sleeps all night for one week I'll start to think there's a connection.

By the third night I had seen my own primary care physician and begged him for some sleep aids.  I took them last night and I was out in minutes which lasted straight through to this morning.  When I woke up the princess was in bed with us.  I slept right through it so I could care less.  Maybe that's the solution; Dave and I pound sleep aids before bed and she can climb in the middle and neither of us is bothered by it.  That; or a king sized bed is soon to come.