Poor Delia

Poor Delia has had a cold off and on for over a month now. About two weeks ago, she had an elevated white count that ended up being a virus (although it was really annoying to have to go to the doctor's office 3 days in a week for a finger prick). She has actually been in a pretty good mood considering her runny nose and cough. With Jacob coming to visit for Thanksgiving and her cough sounding worse, I decided to take her into the doctor on Tuesday afternoon. Good thing I trusted my mother's intuition because Delia was wheezing. She needed a nebulizer (breathing) treatment in the doctor's office. What is a breathing treatment? I had to hold a mask on her face for 10 minutes while she breathed in the medicine. She screamed and fought me the ENTIRE time, so needless to say, both of us were exhausted by the end. I also had to rent a nebulizer for a week and give her breathing treatments 3-4 times a day. Delia was a trooper and she's doing much better now. She still has a runny nose and a cough, but it sounds better than it did before. Hopefully this is all of our drama for a while...

I managed to take one picture of Delia during her breathing treatments.