The scare of my life

So Nellie decided to scare the crap out of me. On Monday she had a runny nose. On Tuesday she had a runny nose and a cough. Tuesday night she went to bed and kept us up all night. She kept crying I hurt, I hurt, but of course couldn't tell me what hurt. I brought her in bed with us and nuzzled all night, thinking she was getting an ear infection...it wasn't.
The next morning I woke up and Nellie came out on the couch. I was getting all the kids ready for school and when they were off turned my attention back to Nellie. I sat down beside her and noticed she was a bit lethargic. She was breathing pretty fast and hard, making this giggly sound she does when she is having an asthma attack. I picked her up and took her into the bathroom where I turned on the hot shower and sat with her.
Within minutes she was gasping. The giggly sound was gone, replaced with her trying hard to breath. I called my husband and said if you don't get home now I am calling an ambulance. He was home within minutes and we were on our way to the doctors.
Nellie's oxygen was at 94 and dropping when we got there. The doctor hurried in and got her on the nebulizer. After two doses she finally came out of it and went to sleep. When the doc hear her snoring he told me she has sleep apnea (A blog for another day) and he's going to send her to yet another specialist. However that was not was was wrong with her this time. She had pneumonia!! So we now have her on tons of scripts and nebulizing every four hours.
Nellie is getting better now and for that I send praise to God. I never want to see one of my children struggling to breath again. It was the scariest moment of my life!

Nellie the wrecking ball

Yes Nellie is a wrecking ball. She can destroy a room in seconds flat. The problem is she is not made of metal and often hurts herself as well. You see Nellie is very bull legged and also has a tight foot muscle which makes her foot turn in pretty badly. She also has little to no depth perception so she is clumsy. In less than two weeks this girl has gone down the basement stairs on her belly. hit her head numerous times and now fell off the couch onto the end table.
Another issue we have with Nellie is her under sensitivity to pain. I guess in a way that's a good thing for her, but not so much for us. It's very hard to tell how bad she is hurt. Ok, I take that back because when she fell off the couch she screamed!!!!! The thing is unless she is really, really hurt she does not cry.
It's scary sometimes because most kids learn from getting hurt. They jump off something, hurt themselves and their brain says hummm I better not do that again, but not Nellie. She'll do it over and over and one day I fear this will cause a broken bone or more stitches (She had her first set of stitches over the summer after an attack by a dog food can).
To all the mothers who have children who have under sensitivity to pain, I feel you. Most people think it's a good thing, yet we know it's not.