I think we're all succumbing to the dry fall/winter air, waking up with the awfully sore throat and the dry nasal passages. Mia has a humidifier that we just cranked up again. We were contemplating selling the thing because the filters cost as much as the machine! I'm not joking. I'll never get another Bionaire. We paid around $50-$60 for the machine at Costco in Alaska and when we finally found the replacement filters, they were $40!! I just take them out an bleach them and lay them in the sun occasionally but they gunk up fast.
Mia has started her immunosuppressant. We're using Imuran instead of 6MP, they are the same kind of drug though. For some reason the pharmacy couldn't compound 6MP. They list all of the same uses and side effects, it's just a matter of brand name. We're on day five. She's being odd, but that isn't really anything new lately. She's odd on medication. We actually had to skip preschool on Friday because she threw up in the parking lot. She told me when she got up that she didn't feel good. I had to dress her and put her shoes on; all she wanted to do was lay on the ground propped up against her bed. I should have believed her, because I spent an hour cleaning the sick out of the car when we got home! She snuggled on the couch with Daddy and watched a movie and felt much better. I'm sure it was the Imuran, the nausea and vomiting are one of the side effects listed. We're going to see the hematologist in Denver tomorrow, might get a blood workup. We have orders to do it on Wednesday or Thursday anyhow, she's just looking peaked and it worries me. She's extremely emotional, too. I hear her just tearing up and crying over something like dropping a book.
Halloween was fun! She insisted on being Tinkerbell. So we put the dress that Mimmy bought to good use! She's been wearing it every day for nearly two weeks. She got a kick out of dressing up with her friends and even told people "No peanuts please!" So we ended up with hardly any directly peanut products, though a couple of snickers bars managed to get in there. Thank goodness she isn't anaphylactic to things just being in her space!
We could NOT get the child to say "trick or treat" but she did thank them when they put something in the bag. We ended up using most of it in our own bowl of candy to hand out. It sounds cheap, but really we did it so we wouldn't feel obligated to eat it!
That is when she started saying "trick or treat!" She would haul the bowl out before the kids could even get to the garage and yell, "TRICKERTREET!!" She had been collecting only one kind of candy in her hand, so some poor little kids got a wad of pixie sticks! She stood at the door just waiting! It was quite a show trying to get her out of the costume to take her bath and do night time things. She really wanted to stay in their costume! It went back on first thing the next morning!
The neighborhood friends: My friend Marissa and her little girl were a pair! She's the banana holding the baby monkey! We had a ninja, a Cat in the Hat, a baby dinosaur, a Tinkerbell and a cheerleader that was camera shy!
This house scared the daylights out of her. They had a motion activated witch, and she stood at the corner of the garage, already nervous about the inflated moving decoration! The man passing out the candy was very nice and brought the bowl to her!
And no, we didn't have any nightmares to contend with.
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