breathing. easy.

snapper had what appears to be her first asthma attack today. we’re really not sure what triggered it, whether it was the looong crawl from the living room through the dining area to the kitchen picking up perhaps too much dust because we need to clean again, or whether it was some chasing and petting of mika and then fingers-to-mouth. although we’ve had carefully supervised mika petting before and it never resulted in any reactions before now.

but today, all the signs were there. short repeated coughing, and audible wheezing. we did the steamy bathroom trick which did seem to help, and just sat with her in there reading some books. thankfully, she didn’t seem to notice either way and at no point did she look anything but happy and jumpy (except at the end, where she was getting tired because the schvitz was delaying her nap). i had visions of dealing with this in the future; i can’t decide what’s worse: if she gets a bad attack now and she can’t understand what’s going on, or if it’s later and we have an angry and scared 3 year old who throws a tantrum because they’re being kept in a steamy bathroom for half an hour.

the doctor did warn me that she might have asthma, since he heard the faintest traces of it when we last went in for the ear infection. plus, hmc has mild asthma so it could run in the family.

she later woke up from her nap and was totally fine. and then proceeded to eat about 8 oz of baby food in various forms. holy bejeeezus!