Belle is upstairs coughing and, at first, I went running up every time to make sure she was okay. Pythagorus is with her, but he'd sleep through kingdom coming. Even Addie, usually only concerned with how many AIM conversations she can have going on at once or where she's going to charge her iPod now that the main computer is out of commission, poked her head out and asked if Belle was okay.
Yeah, Belle is okay. Like both Pythagorus and Addie, it appears that Belle has allergies. They get worse at night and, again like both her daddy and her sister, they aren't characterized by just a runny nose or tender sinuses ... she gets a hard core cough. She sounds like a chain-smoking drunk the morning after (except, of course, it's still nighttime). She has a physical coming up, and I'm sure she'll get an inhaler of some sort (we can put it in the medicine chest with Addie's and Phythagorus') or maybe they'll put her on Claritin or Zyrtec (although I suspect she's still too young).
Belle is a very neat kid. She actually plays board games better than many adults (she has a sense of strategy that I find both amazing and a little frightening) and is obsessed with the idea of reading (and very close to doing this on her own). I was hoping she'd avoid the curse of the allergies but, if that last cough was any indication, no such luck.
Oh, my little Belle ...
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She's adorable! It's awful to see our kids sick. =( I think my 10-year-old may have allergies, but they aren't too bad yet. I just acquired mine and am on Claritin, weekly allergy injections, and an inhaler for the gym. My life changed overnight with the diagnosis. I'd spend winter sick, like three months straight really ill every year for the last 4 years or so. I haven't even had a cold since I've started the medication in January. It's amazing.
ReplyDeleteI'm in love with my laptop. I write my best in bed with it balanced on my knees, pillows stacked up behind me.
My other daughter, Addie, is fourteen. She spends most of the time from November to about June sick. She's just really sensitive to allergens. My husband is the same way, although Addie tends to get a lot sicker, poor little thing. I hope Belle's allergies are less intense--for a long time, I had to bring Addie to the Emergency Room in the middle of the night for nebulizor treatments every few months : (
ReplyDeleteYour daughter is just BEAUTIFUL! And she sounds a LOT like her Mama - intelligent, well-spoken and quite literate!
ReplyDeleteI also loved the part about your Salinger-space in your bedroom. Great visual. I can imagine steaming cups of tea and fresh, crisp parchment and a laptop, of course. Maybe some plants and Victorian-type high-backed, padded chairs. I could go on and on. That's one of my curses; I over visualize.