Rose has stabilized!  You don’t know how happy this smile makes me… this is the first time she’s smiled all week!  Her temp has hovered around 100 today, but that’s a great improvement.  It’s coming down slowly but surely. 

She still has a lot left to break up in her chest, but she is breathing more easily.  Starting tomorrow, we only have to do four treatments a day for seven days and then we will be good to go!  One of the five of us has been sick around the clock since kindergarten started.  I can’t think of a time when we have all been well at the same time.  It’s been rough.  I know the RSV came home from school too because Noelle had a lot of congestion and sinus pain the days preceding the little ones getting sick, and we’ve stayed close to home for the past couple of weeks due to the littles ear infections.  Back in September, my doctor said that since I’ve been with the girls during the day for the past 5+ years, we are going to get exposed to everything for the first time and that this year will just be rough.  However, I had no idea it would be week after week, month after month!  I hope we are building up our immunities for the years to come, paying it forward so to speak.

Rose is starting to enjoy the nebulizer.  I think it feels good to her to be able to take big deep breaths, and she knows what to expect, so there are no surprises.  She’s let down her guard a little and knows that it won’t hurt her and that she is safe.  After her doctor’s visit on Friday, she was very jumpy, and rightly so!  She still gets restless, I think because it must make her feel claustrophobic, but she isn’t fighting us as much.  Pinning her down during her treatments has been the worst part, that and hearing the word pneumonia come out of the doctor’s mouth on Friday!  So thankful for the rain, for pjs and for rest!  Rose is on the mend!