Sick

Sick
Originally uploaded by dyrlac.

Apologies for the long delay. Shortly after the last batch was posted, Nat came down with a chest infection that immediately went to work on his lungs. After a night of shallow breathing, I took Nat to Chelsea & Westminster (our friends!), where they eventually diagnosed him with a reaction to broncialitis in the asthmatic spectrum. So Nat got to spend three days in the pediatric ward on supplemental oxygen and steroids. I took the night shift from 2000 to 0800. Deirdre and Henry took the day shift.

Essentially, this mean we will have to give Nat an inhaler whenever he gets a cold. A colleague of mine says both of his kids had this but grew out of it by age 6 or so. He blames it on London's lovely air quality.