Fun in the Sun

It's too hot.  We've been spoiled by such a mild summer that totally appropriate August weather is just not acceptable!  I'm not sure if I should take comfort in the fact that it's nearly September, or be alarmed that IT'S NEARLY SEPTEMBER!  Anyway, we've been laying a little low, trying to get things caught up inside the house from our busy first two weeks of August.  We made it to the pool a day this week, and did some playing outside.  We also got the garage/shed transfer pretty well in hand today.  Nothing fun, but lots of things getting crossed off of our to-do lists!

Natalie also finally got into the pulmonology clinic this week.  They diagnosed her with asthma for sure, and prescribed her a new inhaler and gave us a rescue inhaler in the event of another scary breathing situation.  I really liked the doctor; I felt she was conservative without being complacent, and set a timeline for reevaluating symptoms and medication efficacy that I was very comfortable with.  From here we'll try to identify some triggers of her asthma in order to further prevent any kind of emergency, which might also change the medication she takes, or hopefully someday won't need to take.  Nat is much happier with the inhaler (which takes a total of maybe a minute twice a day) versus the nebulizer that ate up a solid 20 minutes.  I'm at least encouraged that since she's been on the nebulizer daily, and now the inhaler, her coughing (which was fairly chronic) is almost non-existent.  AND...coincidence or not, she is sleeping better, and not snoring audibly!  All for the win column.