meet sarah of toddler summer

I talk a lot about Ethan and his struggles with asthma and while I don't like that other children are also dealing with the same issues, it's always nice to meet someone who gets it. For my 5:00 p.m. post, I'd like to introduce you to Sarah of Toddler Summer, a fabulous blog that I'm so glad I found.

In Sarah's post "The New Noramal," Sarah writes a sentiment that I understand wholeheartedly: "With each progressive sickness, beginning when Nora was 9 months old, I knew my odds of one day having the doctor tell me that Nora has asthma were increasing. I would worry about it, cry about it, but all of that was unproductive – the kind of asthma Nora would have would be genetic, ironically totally out of my control even though it was my genetics that could bestow that gift. Ken would tell me to stop worrying, but I couldn’t help it. That’s what moms do."

Sometimes it feels though asthma is so widespread, it's hard to find other mothers out there with children going through the same thing. In this post and Sarah's post titled "Control", I sense so much familiarity to our own lives.

Today I wanted to share with you an excerpt from Sarah's post she composed for Asthma Awareness Month that shares in great detail the emotion involved in learning you have a toddler who suffers from asthma.

"The first time Nora watched TV she was 18 moths old and we could figure out no other way for her to sit still for 15 minute nebulizer treatments. Over the months of sitting still in front of the television, we made friends with The Backyardigans and Curious George, Elmo and Olivia as Nora breathed in air treated with steroids and albuterol. And slowly, after months of not knowing why she was coughing, why she was catching every respiratory infection possible, why she had pneumonia three times before she was three years old, we learned how to control her asthma."
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You can read more from Sarah at her blog as well as Facebook and Twitter!