Kitty Kat Pearls

Ugg!  I hate asthma!  Caleigh's flare ups are usually mild but they usually lead to a sore throat and chest for Caleigh and interrupted if not sleepless nights for everyone.  Most of the time the coughing will subside in a few minutes (sometimes hours) after a few puffs of her inhaler. 

The other night Caleigh was having a rough time with the cough.  She had climbed into our bed in the early hours of the the morning and turned our bed into a motion bed with her non-stop coughing.

After about 30 minutes or so of this coughing, Chad asks her to try to stop.  She very seriously tells him "If I try to stop coughing then I get kitty kat pearls and I HAVE to cough."  I couldn't help but laugh.  The hazy sleep that I been in slipped away with the laughter and I was now wide awake. 

"Kitty kat pearls" I asked?

She said "Yeah, when I don't cough I get pearls like a kitty kat and I have to cough to make it go away."

I wish I could make all of her "kitty kat pearls" go away for good!  But since I can't, I will just be content with letting her cough as much as she needs so she doesn't have "pearls".