Long night. in crawling into 2014.

I felt as though I had gone back in time a few years last night when Lila got me up every two hours. Poor wee moo has some evil virus that is affecting her breathing horrifically.

Late afternoon was when I started to worry about her and I contacted my friend who's son has asthma to ask her advice. She let me borrow a spacer for me to use my asthma reliever on her and while I know that you shouldn't use medicine for one person on someone else, especially when there has been no diagnosis, I couldn't stand the thought of taking her to hospital, she was so uncomfortable, distressed and damnit, she couldn't breath!

At first she wouldn't have the inhaler because it was scary, she didn't know what it would be like but when her breathing became painful and hard work she had it without a fight. It didn't seem to have a massive effect at that time but she did calm down.

She woke two hours later coughing. Again she was scared and couldn't figure out how to be. She was moving around, getting up, down and even fighting me out of panic. I gave her more of the reliever and, almost instantaneously, the coughing stopped and she calmed down. I stayed with her for a while, snuggled together and playing Subway Surfer on my phone. Once she was asleep I went to bed but I lay there unable to sleep. When she woke, coughing again, I was straight in there. I gave her my inhaler again, and we snuggled up to sleep. However, Ikea beds weren't designed for two people to snuggle, they're too narrow so, once again, I came back to bed when she was asleep. She woke once more at 2:30 and slept through beyond that.

She's still wheezing a little but now but seems better. Hopefully she's on the mend now.