Eshel

We are back. It was a hard time for the family, but we are back and smiling.




















What happened with Eshel's breathing?
After acupuncture Eshel didn't feel much better and by night his breathing was awful. We decided to start the treatment with an inhalation drug (has no steroids and is used for asthma attacks) called Terbulin. Eshel felt even worse afterwards - started to throw up and his fever went up immediately (was it an allergic reaction? The doctor didn't think so). We went ahead and gave him the oral steroid drug which he just threw up a second ago. In the morning I got a number for another alternative doctor and we went to see her in the afternoon. She did some massage, acupuncture but nothing seamed to help Eshel breathe and she told us to go ahead and give him the steroid treatment. At home we gave Eshel the oral drug and it worked in a couple of minutes. Eshel was breathing again! Next morning we gave the drug again. When we saw that nothing much changed we decided to stop giving the drug and go see the doctor. At the doctor's office we were told that Eshel had a virus that triggered the "allergic/asthmatic" reaction. We were also told to have the medicine on hand at all times as it is very possible that the attack can come back.
"Every child teaches us something new" - Eshel showed us that when everyone is healthy and well we forget the most important thing - we forget to love our children as they are and we complain too much about misbehavior, tiredness and the lack of time to do "our"(parent's) things. When Eshel was sick nothing mattered as much. What really mattered was him staying alive. I understood that the house was not important at all and getting together with children wasn't very important either. What is important is staying healthy.
My new plan is to keep active - to go to the sea at least three times a week, to play games there, to run around and to swim in cold water (to boost up the immune system). To keep doing the activities that we already have and to remember that doing things only with my children is something I have to value the most.