To breathe or not to breathe.

Mar 26, 2009 15:07

Wee on Tuesday my day went very differnetly to the plan. I was working on a group project all going swimmingly when I started to chough and wheeze. This for me happens once in a blur moon so ignored it and carried on working.
By the time the project guys went home and the person helping me make my poster look nice came I was feeling a bit rough but still not bothered.
Ok this is prehaps where I should have started to be more bothered ah well I'll learn for next time.
I used my inhaler and it wasn't really making any difference used it some more same effect. oughing so much by now damn asthma cough that it made me sick. Yes I'm a girl I knes it was going to so I took me to the bathroom and was discreate about it.

Over the enxt hour or so we continued with the work and me not felling too bad but coughing and wheezing. The friend who i'm with has the highest level of training that you can have for first aid and stuff through St John. He was giving me enough rope to hang myself I guess. And or I find out later he was thinking I'd ask for help. He doesn't quiet know me well enough yet.

It reaches point where poster format done hes ready to go home I have n hour or sos data entry to do and all will be done.

This is where the plan went tits up. I walked Rich to front door as we're meant to being not lazy. We're meant to see all guests in and out but don't always. Anyway hets as fat as cooler area between the 2 front sets of doors and this air made it really hard for me to breathe. Made to go back in by Rich who is telling me I'm not ok and I'm argueing in my normal fashion. Truth be told quiet hard to argue when you can't breathe enough to string whole sentances together.

Overall by offering me threats he gets me to give in on my plan of sitting through the asthma attack as I've done i nthe apst and called an ambulance out on me. I'm dragged to local hospital and end up in the majors side and err also in resus although they said that was because they were ful else where looking at it with working brain cells now its because they weren't sure if I was going to totaly colapse but I couldn't see that at the time.

I was nebulised in ambulance again straight away in A&E and many more times totalying err 7 I think over the course of about 10 hours. This is totaly abnormal for me. Even when i've had an asthma attack previously 1 low dose neb fixes me possibly with then some steroid tablets to keep it ok while things get back on balance. These were the high dose nebs ho hum I was a lot iller than I realised from inside.

Again info after the fact apparently I was pale grey and it was using my whole body just to breathe.

So hospital doesn't know why this happened have been checked still no chest infection and no blood clot so thats all good. Even on the steroid tablets breathing is struggling to maintain itself properly and I'm signed off uni with the no you're not to ignore it and go in instructions. Not helped by I have an important teaching morning tomorrow and my partner for it is hassling me which is stressing me a lot. Shes not doing it on purpose I know as she's not well herself but very differently not well but still made me think about going in before sense kicked in I don't want to be bck in hospital again.

ho hum easters coming no snow at Maelstrom please. Also glad its going to be a flat field as knee still not right.

asthma

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