What to do when they refuse treatment?

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Last night was a nightmare, were all sick with a head/chest cold (no body

aches or high fevers or I'd swear it was the flu becasue it hit like a

train) Anyway, dd kept coughing and it sounded like an asthma attack, the

kids broke my stethoscope (AFTER the fact I realized dd put it back together

wrong after the baby took it apart is why it wasn't working) so I had to

wake her up to take her Xopenex and it was a nightmare. She adamently and

violently refused. Total meltdown. I finally walked out in total fustration

and told her " fine, then die " . I can not believe said that to her! I went

and sat out on the couch and about 5 minutes later she came out and said she

didn't want to die and wanted to do it but she wanted to do it alone. I do

not trust her to do it alone (she's 7 and just moved from nebs to MDI's)

but I didn't have much choice last night so I let her. I need suggestions on

how to better handle this in the future. Right now I'm seriously sleep

deprived, the baby is nursing non stop it seems and I have a ton of homework

due tonight that I still have to do so stress levels are high and I know I

handled last night badly. We see pulmo Monday and I'm going to ask about

asthma education classes for her to better help her understand the need for

meds but with else can I do?