Breathing retraining
Seriously now.
Yesterday we brought Nora to see a breathing retraining therapist. I will spare you the technical details but in short it is nothing more than the word says. A therapist that teaches people how to breath.
The asthma center specialists at the Univesity Hospital do nor really believe in this approach to solve Nora's hyperventilation problem, but on the other hand they are also not quite sure what her problem his.Therefore we will try it anyway! Even though she does not have a life threatening condition it feels awful not to be able to do anything to make her better.
The risk of overtreating her is of course always present and it pains your heart sometimes to drag her from hospital to hospital, like yesterday morning when I told her that we were going to see yet another doctor. She looks at me with her big eyes full of fear and says "Are they going to take my blood, or something like that?" "Absolutely not!" I tell her, which is trrue, but I also know that in giving this answer in the past I have not always been completely accurate. So it does not surprice me to see the doubt still in her expression when she starts silently crying, saying that she does not want to go there and she only wants to go play with her new friend Floris.
It takes me a good quarter of an hour to calm her and try to let her understand that maybe this doctor is going to make her better. I have to say maybe because I am also not sure and I do not want to lie to her.
The therapist is a very nice lady, you can see that she has a lot of experience with children, she makes Nora comfortable and makes sure that she has a fun experience so that she will want to go back. At the end of the session we ask her whether she has ever seen I case like this. We have asked this question already so many times in the last four years, the answer is invariably the same, no never seen anything like this before!
Nora had a good time and the training seemed to make sense so we will go back, hoping that it will help but managing our expectations, just to use a business term in a very unbusiness like situation.
Yesterday we brought Nora to see a breathing retraining therapist. I will spare you the technical details but in short it is nothing more than the word says. A therapist that teaches people how to breath.
The asthma center specialists at the Univesity Hospital do nor really believe in this approach to solve Nora's hyperventilation problem, but on the other hand they are also not quite sure what her problem his.Therefore we will try it anyway! Even though she does not have a life threatening condition it feels awful not to be able to do anything to make her better.
The risk of overtreating her is of course always present and it pains your heart sometimes to drag her from hospital to hospital, like yesterday morning when I told her that we were going to see yet another doctor. She looks at me with her big eyes full of fear and says "Are they going to take my blood, or something like that?" "Absolutely not!" I tell her, which is trrue, but I also know that in giving this answer in the past I have not always been completely accurate. So it does not surprice me to see the doubt still in her expression when she starts silently crying, saying that she does not want to go there and she only wants to go play with her new friend Floris.
It takes me a good quarter of an hour to calm her and try to let her understand that maybe this doctor is going to make her better. I have to say maybe because I am also not sure and I do not want to lie to her.
The therapist is a very nice lady, you can see that she has a lot of experience with children, she makes Nora comfortable and makes sure that she has a fun experience so that she will want to go back. At the end of the session we ask her whether she has ever seen I case like this. We have asked this question already so many times in the last four years, the answer is invariably the same, no never seen anything like this before!
Nora had a good time and the training seemed to make sense so we will go back, hoping that it will help but managing our expectations, just to use a business term in a very unbusiness like situation.
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