tough week

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I'm still waiting to hear from my insurance company re: approval for

Xolair. I really hope I'm not going to be dissappointed. I had a

really tough week.

Went to my family physician last Wednesday because of escalating

asthma conditions/cold/fever. She put me on a 5 day burst of 50mg

pred and Zithromax. I started feeling better after a couple of days

and then on Sunday I was needing my ventolin every 1-2 hours. I went

to the E.R. yesterday morning because my peak flows were down to

200. They gave me 24 (yes 24) puffs of Ventolin, 16 puffs of

Atrovent and another 50mg of Pred (total of 100mg). They wanted

to " kick start " my lungs. More like kick start my heart! This all

in 3.5 hours. They then sent me home on: 50mg Pred; 2 puffs qid

Ventolin; 2 puffs qid Atrovent; 6 puffs bid Symbicort; 150mg

Theophylline; Singular. I'm going to try to go to work tomorrow for

a few hours and push some papers around on my desk (I'm a

bookkeeper). I go back to see my dr. tomorrow and will be interested

on her take re: all the ventolin. I asked why they did not do

nebulizer treatments in the hospitals anymore. The nurse said that

the mist was introducing germs into the air and getting health care

workers and other patients sick. I wonder if this was in relation to

the SARS outbreak a couple of years ago????

....do they do nebulizer treatments in Montreal? We are only 2

hours away from Toronto which was the hardest hit area in Canada with

SARS.

Anyways.....my body is not as jittery but I sure would like to sleep

sometime soon!

Pamela

Kingston, Ontario

P.S. Please pray that the " good people " at Manulife decide that I

need to be on Xolair!