VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

DH, me, and esp Josh.

day in and day out for 20 mos.

I can't even think of another thing to bribe this child with.

I dread this part of my day. Last night, he refused, I don't blame him, so I told him go to bed. He came down and said he was sorry but he's really not even doing anything wrong.

So I yelled at josh, dh yelled at me, I cried, and Josh yelled at dh for yelling at me.

All because of this effing machine.

I honestly don't think I have the fight in me when the baby comes along.

that's it bedtime starts in 7 minutes and I am dreading this nonsense

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

DD was on a nebulizer for a week and it was tragic. I can only imagine what its like for that long. Hang in there!

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

Make a chain link. Maybe like 14 to get you through 2 week clips. On the insides write random things such as:
"give mommy a kiss"
"get a hershey kiss"
"stay up 15 minutes past bedtime"

Every day after he does the treatment let him open a link and he gets to do it.

Kind of makes it exciting to him not knowing what the paper will say

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

thanks jess!

the candy one would not work at this point
neither would extra 15 minutes since he is like a little out of control crackhead if he is told to lay down within the hour of the treatment.


I have more recently moved to water balloons...first gets to bring them in tub.

now, he gets to hit dh with one as he walks to the house dh said I need to come up with something new quick.

But I like the idea of a suprise that he gets to read. just have to think of surprises

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

OMG - I don't know how you do it. I swear to god that machine has driven me over the edge more times then I would like to admit.

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

Posted by Janice

I have more recently moved to water balloons...first gets to bring them in tub.

now, he gets to hit dh with one as he walks to the house dh said I need to come up with something new quick.

Message edited 2/9/2010 6:14:53 PM.

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Message edited 7/16/2010 12:08:47 PM.

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

thanks! is that the same as the spacer?

I have one of those...we had little sucess with it, now i only use in emergencies to get it in him quick.

maybe now that he is older it will be different.

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Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

Posted by alexlynn7

janice,

would he use a metered dose inhaler? as far as i know, the delivery of the meds is just as good, if not better than with the nebs.

and it takes just a few seconds - literally.

jonah would never, ever, ever tolerate the nebs... but the mdi worked like a charm most days.

ETA:

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

see we started with spacer...he just never hit a maintance point with it.

then we were switched to neb and he has been so much better since the switch.

i have an appt coming up, i am going to bring up spacer again

Re: VENT: we are soooo over nebulizer treatments in this house

I can totally relate. We are a slave to this thing. Except for a break in the Summer DS has been on it for 1.5 year. It is getting VERY old.

I can only do it at night when he sleeps. With his sensory issue it was a complete nightmare. It's DH's "duty" every night. Our pulmonologist said it was OK to do it when he was asleep. He knows how complicated it is with DS.