Autumn in hospital with athsma attack

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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