Reason to over react!

Today is Friday February 4, 2011. I am sitting at St. Johns Mercy Hospital with my Maxx. He was admitted last night after our second trip to the ER in 24 hours. He has asthma. Now I say that loosely because at this young of an age they will not / can not "officially" diagnose him with asthma. They say it is on the assumption because of the family history. My mother has it. His great grandma Garst died from an asthma attack and I have it.

I have to admit I am feeling a bit guilty. In the past when he was making "wheezing" sounds I would take him into the doctor and they say his lungs were clear. So this time I kept thinking he was OK. The doctors office was closed on Wednesday, so I kept thinking I'm sure I'm just over reacting, like always. After a phone call from uncle Dr. Chris and him hearing Maxx breathing while talking to me, he suggested that he be seen at the ER.

We went to the ER and sure enough he was wheezing. He was extremely tight and not moving air very well at all. They gave him a treatment that lasted an hour. He responded well to that, so they gave us a steroid script and some instructions on home treatments and sent us on our way.
I had him sleep with me Wednesday night, more so I could hold him and make sure he was breathing OK.

Thursday morning he seemed OK. We went about our routine. As the day went on he seemed to get worse and worse again. Then my grandma called. She could hear him, so she passed me to my mom. She could hear him, so she passed me to my uncle (who is a firemedic). He could hear him and suggested going back to the ER. I called the doctor's exchange and the nurse I talked with could also hear him and also suggested the ER again.

Thursday evening we when we got to the ER, we signed in and were told to take a seat. They then took us to the peds area and waited another 10 mins. They called us back to the triage nurse and she took one look and listened and they rushed us back to a room. The doctor came in and listened and right off the bat said we would be staying.

Now here we are on Friday. Just got word we probably won't be going home until tomorrow.

Wouldn't you know, the one time (OK 2 times) I think I am just over reacting that he really is sick. I am so glad that I took the advice of other along with my mothers intuition and went ahead and went. Had I not, he probably would have gotten to the point of no return.

I am going to stop worrying about over reacting. Because like this time, maybe there is a reason to over react!!!