On January 23 I got home from work around 10pm and went to check on Kayla. She'd been sick with a cold for a few days and hadn't been sleeping very well. Her breathing was extremely labored to the point where we rushed her to the ER. We were there until early Sunday morning when Kayla and mom got an ambulance ride complete with lights and sirens to the Central DuPage Hospital where she was admitted to the Pediatric ICU. Long story short she got better and was released on that Wednesday. We also now own our very own nebulizer breathing machine. She had what they called broncillitis (spelling?) and was also diagnosed with Reactive Airway Disease (RAD) and all that combined with her cold made it so that she wasn't getting enough oxygen into her lungs. We can give her treatments with the nebulizer whenever she gets whezzy and we think she's having trouble breathing. She had the same thing back in November but less severe. I wonder if she has these problems since she was born early and her lungs never got a chance to fully develop? The doctors said she could grow out of it or she might some day have asthma (spelling again?) Anyways, after we got home we all proceeded to get sick to varying degrees and then pass it along to most of Carla's family. A parting gift from the hospital I'm betting. What fun!
t to the Museum of Science and Industry and Kayla seemed to have a good time looking at the model trains but I think she had the most fun sitting in the John Deere's. They have a farm section of the museum and you can climb up in the tractors and sit in them. There sure are alot more switches and gizmos in them than I rememb
er way back when. Shoot, I remember just wishing for air conditioning. The combine had a computer screen and all sorts of things in it that I couldn't even guess at. A good time was had by all though and the drive downtown wasn't that bad at all.
