asthma attack

Tuesday Oct 27 2009 19:40:30

By julesy

this week has not been the best week. the sale on our flat fell through, I made a mistake at work some months ago which has ended up causing huge headaches and my colleagues had to spend ages to find what the problem was. (i'm popular!) we've all had really horridly bad colds and to top it off my eldest ended up in hospital over 2 days because his asthma got so bad. It didn't seem to be too scary at the time because we took him straight to the local hospital and the nurse phoned an ambulance who took us to the main hospital. He was treated and looked after and although it took a really long time and they had to continue giving him treatment through the night I didn't find it scary. I was so focused on looking after him and worrying about him and making sure I was answering all the millions of questions properly that i didn't have chance to be scared.
However, since being home though I have been so scared for him. what if it happens again? what if he gets poorly in the night and we don't realise. I worry about him when he's at pre-school and what about when he's older and is at school and does sports. People, CHILDREN, die from asthma so I've been petrified. We really thought we'd got on top of it and he was maybe growing out of it and this was the worse he's ever been. we've been so careful with his preventors and relievers to make sure he has them.
The worse thing is though was we didn't realise how bad he was. I only took him to the hospital because it was due to close 45 minutes later and i didn't want to drive in the middle of the night should i need to to the out-of-hours dr which was half an hour away! I had no clue it was so bad. I feel awful! its so difficult to tell. he'd been fine all day and it came on so sudden but he doesn't wheeze - just gets breathless. he sat and was quiet but gave no indication of struggling or being upset. horrid - hope we never go through it again.
definately worse week ever.