Uh Oh... APL's First Cold

First off, let me say that it is difficult for me to write about this stuff when the economy is tanking as it is right now. Karin does not want me to write in this forum about the massive hole that has been dug for us over the past 8 years so I shall grit my teeth, attempt to ignore the Bush legacy that APL is going to be left with, and will instead write about how cute our little guy is. See how easy that is?

When I arrived home on Wednesday, APL had a noticeable amount of dried shmutz below his nose. He was otherwise happy and looked perfectly healthy but I immediately assumed it was a cold and that we parental types were in for something unpleasant. And I was right (small victories)!

That evening he went to bed around 8:30 or 9:00 PM. He was up not long after 10:00 PM, crying. I could hear at that time that he was having trouble breathing (I don't think he has figured out that he can breathe through his mouth if necessary). I picked him up, and walked with him briefly. He calmed down. But we had a little problem on our hands.

I put him back to bed but he woke up again an hour later. This time, we propped up one end of his bed and also brought up a chair from his swing that he sometimes sleeps in and that is more upright (drainage).

It was a rough night. He was up just about every hour. Karin wasn't working the next day so she took the bulk of them and I took over at 5:00 AM.

Thursday Karin rushed out to get a humidifier. The plan was to encase him in humidity so that anything that even thought about drying up knew better than to try...

It didn't help. He was just runny and waking up all night instead of dry and waking up all night. So two back-to-back nights in a row. And now I have just put him to sleep on this Friday evening. He was slightly cranky around bedtime but I think the cold is not as bad as it was over the last two days. At least I sincerely hope that to be the case.