Asthma

Jessica has asthma. I've taken her in for coughs like nine or ten times since August. She gets these spasms where she just coughs over and over again. It's so sad and hard. The spasms seem to get worse when they are accompanied by congestion. She's had a bad cold since Valentines Day. She still has a fever off and on. But this aggravates her spasms and causes them to be worse than they normally are. All I can do is keep her still and quiet and rub her head. Its' the only thing that seems to work. Mike said it's because it calms her down. So since Saturday, I've been just trying to read to her, keep her still (she is 3), rub her head and watching movies and playing Leapster. Her sister doesn't understand why she can't run and play with her. It's really hard for Katie to not have her playmate. It sounds like it would be easy to just keep them down and chill out with them but it's awful full of crying and whining and drinks and snot and reminder after to reminder to stay still and not get worked up. Crying, moving around and any activity trigger her spasms. I hope the asthma meds help her.