Meredith has been sick

Meredith doing her treatment of albuterol to clear her lung during her asthma attack

We have not updated our blog for a very long time. My workload has increased last few months and between work, kids, part time graduate school, I am struggling to fit everything in and to find time to post on our blog. But I think it is finally time to update people of our recent activities.

Recently, both Meredith and Isaac have been sick a lot. Since they got back from Malaysia, we have been in and out of doctor's office almost every week due to cold, fever and other minor sickness. I think the main reason is Meredith started school and she brought home all kinds of germs from school.

Lately, she got two episodes of asthma attacks too. She never had asthma attack and the first time it happened, we didn't know what it was. She complained of stomach ache and we thought she was having stomach virus. Apparently, she was breathing very hard using her stomach until her stomach muscle started hurting. Thank God that on both occassions she have recovered well.

The clinic here has given her a nebulizer (an air compressor look alike thing) for us to take home, she has used that to breath in a solution to her cope with the asthma attack. We still don't know what trigger her asthma, the doctor is thinking that it might have to do with pollen. New Orleans has been raining nonstop for past few weeks, maybe that has stirred up the pollen.

Anyway, she is doing okay now and we have to give a small dose of Pulmicort everyday for 3 months (using the breathing machine) to prevent further asthma attack. Boon Hong is keeping a log of her activities to figure out what trigger her asthma.