Last night at 11:30 Mikenzie woke up coughing and wanting to come into my bed. Andrew had a random night shift (tonight too and then he's done~ its a grocery store and needs to be done "after hours") so I took her in bed with me. She kept me awake 2/3rds of the night as she could barely breathe, and constantly needed help with the asthma puffer and Nebulizer. We ran out of one of her puffers which seems to work well for her, but isn't supposed to "work" for a few hours to a few days after taking. The medicine that is supposed to help "right away" seems to take hours (at least 12 to kick in) so after a sleepless night, I canceled Kyleighs dentist appointment for today, and made an appointment for Mikenzie with the Asthma specialist.
She slept on the way there, and had improved on the drive, so the nurse said she thought Mikenzie "seemed healthy". Then the doc saw her, and also thought she seemed ok until he listened to her lungs and checked her pulse and something else (done through the finger, but not sure what it is) and then they found out she isn't getting enough oxygen, and needed oral steroids, some other drug, a few puffers, and a stronger medicine for her Nebulizer since the stuff we are using doesn't seem to help. The doc spent 1hr, 15 min with us, and ended up quite concerned.
The doc is pretty sure Mikenzie is Asthmatic all the time (yellow zone), but we/she doesn't know it since it's always been "normal". He figures that as soon as she gets any virus, she plummets down for the yellow zone (healthy non asthmatics are in the green zone) in to the Red zone, and that is why she reacts so badly, and get sick so fast.
We are going to start a "health plan" for her once she is done this bout, which will most likely have her on puffers every day.
I am VERY happy that once again, she is getting proper heath care, but is sucks casue she is still too young for the regular tests they do to determine how bad she is. As a result, it's more of a guessing game with doses and frequency.
Just so you get an idea of how bad she gets, she goes from talking normal sentences like normal kids to only being able to say a few words before having to take a breath again. Oh, and there is lots of crying, and what I sense as terror as she majorly struggles for every breath she gets.
Once home, she slept for 4 hrs while I sewed a Sleep Sack order cause "who knows what tomorrow will bring!" So hopefully she responds to the meds as she haas in the past, and makes a quick recovery.
Just thought I would update ya'll, and no we're not terrified for her or anything as this is pretty "normal" in our house. She is already coloring/playing with Kyleigh again, so we know she is on the mend!
Have a good night~next time there will be pics~ Karen
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That's scary. Poor girl. Im glad that the do is paying close attention and that she is feeling better :)
ReplyDeleteWow, that is scary stuff. Eric once woke up from a horrible caugh (or bark) that he coudn't breath propper and he was so terrifyed from it, which just made it worse. He too had to take oral steroids for it. I coudn't imagine dealng with that all the time. Glad the doctor is taking good care of her!
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