Are you kidding me???!!!

That's how I feel right now. Brooke is sick again! She was coughing up a storm while we were up at Bear Lake. When we got home, I took her to the doctor who put her on an antibiotic. Just after finishing the 10 days, (Thursday night) she started coughing again. Yesterday was awful. She woke up running a fever which almost reached 102. After giving her some medicine and a short nap, she was feeling a little better. Not her normal self, but better. Then bedtime hit and she can't quit coughing. I gave her some medicine and snuggled with her until she fell asleep. She coughed a lot during the night. We constantly have a humidifier running in the girls' room because we have gotten practically every illness this year. So, we just keep it running. This morning we take her to her doctor again. He says he wants to wait for a day or two before starting her on a steroid. He wants us to do breathing treatments and see if she gets better first. I ask him about the email-newsletter from the pediatrician main headquarters saying that whooping cough is really bad right now. They said that usually our county doctors (the entire list of doctors) usually see around 3 cases per week. Lately they have seen around 10 per week. So I was a little nervous. Her doctor said, well, she's up to date on her immunizations, so she should be fine. (Which would make sense as to why DaKoda got the cough and was over it in a matter of 3 days. She is completely current with her immunizations.) He then asked, wait, has she had her 4 year shots yet? And I tell him, No, she is supposed to come back in on Tuesday (3 more days) because we had her well child check up before her birthday and he told us we had to wait to do her shots until after her birthday. (He told us to wait 2 months and then come back for them back in February. So, her appt is for Tuesday.) The doctor then said, well, yeah, she could have whooping cough then. WHAT???!!! I can't believe that just being late by 4 weeks - she turned 4 on March 15 - would make a world of difference.) So, all we can do is keep up with the breathing treatments and hope for the best. I just can't believe the year we have had. In the last 14 months, we have had RSV, croup, rotovirus, an eye infection, and now whooping cough!!!!! What the crap am I doing wrong? I am so ready to just cry. I don't want my poor babies to be in pain anymore. I know there are more serious illness's out there, and more devastating situations, but one after the other is really starting to wear me thin. I can say that I am a firm believer that you should definitely get your kids immunized as close to the recommendations as possible. Here I go, off to do another breathing treatment. Wish us luck. Better yet, pray for us.