Re: Autumn in hospital with athsma attack

[Guest guest]

,

Your family is in my prayers I hope she feels better soon. Stay on top of

them about checking her sugar becuase the steriods will elevate her sugar. maddy

went through that her sugars were in the 3 and 400's.

feel better soon,

Chrissy

[Guest guest]

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