Re: Re: Autumn in hospital with athsma attack

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Hi ,

You don't know since i don't post much , mostly read the experiences. Dakoda had

asthma and bronchospasms really bad when 1-3yrs , when he was two we were given

treatments almost constantly and at one point went to ped and rushed to er by

ambulance, gave him steroids and about 24 hrs later he was better and we were on

our way home , since then very minor apisodes , hasnt had attack in over a year

, knock on wood, so be strong and I'm almost certain it will get better. I know

its hard on you and I will include her in my prayers.

Sheryl, Dakoda sga , cp, 30lbs 38 1/2

wrote:

Oh , you had had it rough lately. Especially with the baby

and now this...you are in my thoughts.

, mom to 5 and Emerence 2.5 22 lbs 32.5 "

> Autumn is in children's hospital now after having a bad athsma

attack on

> thursday. It was about 12 afternoon and she had been coughing

pretty bad

> that morning, threw up once from it but she tends to do that with

> colds...anyways, suddenly she started retracting...breathing

really hard short

> and choppy so I rushed her to urgent care because 2 home

treatments (puffs

> of albuteral and mask) didn't do anything, I thought might just

need a treatment

> and I was hoping it would be quick, I had an important iep meeting

with my

> older sons school to set him up with 1st grade. She's wheezed

before from

> reactive airway with colds so I just wanted her checked out. by

the time we

> got there she was really wheezing and had gotten worse and chest

sounded

> bad so they wanted her in the er. After some work, we got her and

2

> carseats, one for Summer 8 weeks old, and one for Ocean 3 years

old, in an

> ambulance and Autumn strapped to the stretcher and went to the

nearest er.

> (imagine that, i never thought i'd have 3 kids in one at one time)

There she got

> 5 treatments and oxygen and x-ray for possible pneumonia, it was

clear for

> that and about 2 hours later by ambulance we were transported with

oxygen

> to childrens. Needless to say,never made the meeting, my husband

picked

> up my older son from school and got my other son to his parents

and took

> Summer to meet me and Autumn at childrens. 8 more treatments and

oxygen

> and no improvment, she got steroids then placed in room upstairs.

she

> ended up getting a fever in the er because she had just started to

get a slight

> cold. Anyways, they wanted her to roomw ith a kid with croup! We

couldn't

> believe it, we didn't even know there were rooms here that could

be shared,

> so after 2 hours of pushing and phonecalls, we got her own room.

She has

> had treatments every hour at first, then we got to every 2 hours,

now we are

> at every 3 and she is sounding better in her chest but she is

still retracting

> and working very hard to breath. Another x-ray to be sure no

pneumonia

> because she wasn't doing as well as she should, it was clear again

and

> showing athsma. Her ox dropped for a while and she is on

some

> oxygen now to help her feel a little better, she had been

listless, so she finally

> ate some a couple of hours ago. They are great about checking

her

> sugar here. I had a problme last time so the genetisist put an

order in..

> Anyways, about 1.5 hours ago got a hive on her forehead, not huge

but

> decent, the nurse said looks like a bug bite and called the doc,

she looked

> and said, oh, a bug bite and said that it would have to be about 1

inch for it to

> be a hive from a reaction, I said not true, I get hives that look

exactly like that

> and so did my one son from milk allergy and other son from peanut

allergy, I

> know a hive when I see one, and by the ways, why in the world

would she

> have just gotten a random bug bite here? 20 minutes later it

disapeared just

> like the hives I have gotten. So anyways, my husband reprieved me

for a little

> and I have to go eat. Please be thinking of her, she is so

miserable and really

> having a hard time and I am pretty freaked out about this athsma.

I have it but

> it's different, I can feel it and know everything. She got this

bad just from mild

> cold just beginning, and winter isn't even here yet and she gets

sick a lot.

> She's on steroids but they sure are taking their time to kick

in. the treatments

> are just keeping parat of her lungs open, the other part is

waiting. I just don't

> know why with sounding better, that she is still struggling so

hard to breath.

> gotta go

>

> mom to Autumn RSS 19 mos, Summer 8 weeks, Ocean 3 yrs,

Skye 7

> years