Yi - The Hospital Hours

On Monday, Ray was audibly wheezing and very breathless (lips pale), so we brought her to KKCH for emergency treatment. She was treated and fine from then on, except for the occasional cough and residual runny nose.

Then yesterday (Tuesday), Ruvie, who had been coughing and sniffling quite a bit the day before, suddenly seemed to be breathing very hard, so I fetched my stethoscope and, to my horror, heard wheezing in his lungs! After making a few calls to my family clinic and a family friend because HL was not reachable, I decided to pick the girls up early, send Faith home and head for CGH A&E. Thankfully, their teacher offered to send Faith home so I hauled Ray away. HL, who by this time had managed to get to his mobile, called and said he would try to get leave.

However, when we got to CGH, Ruvie simply refused to put on the nebuliser mask. But we managed, with a lot of fuss and crying as well as with the help of the orderly, to get him to take the prednisolone orally. Then the doctor decided she would pass our case to KKCH, so HL, who had arrived, drove us there.

It took a total of four adults to administer the Ventolin in the chamber. HL held his legs, I cradled him and held onto his arms, a nurse held his head firmly and another nurse held and administered the drug. He was so strong, and his face turned red from screaming and kicking. There was such a fuss that when we came back for the second cycle 20 min later, another group of nurses who were at the station knew that we would need reinforcements.

But it was worth going through the trauma (both Ruvie's and ours), because he was obviously very well after that. We were discharged with instructions to puff him and oral meds (more rounds to fight, not looking forward to it).

But later, shortly after the next puff at home, he was breathing very rapidly again, and after a bout of coughing, I detected wheezing, so we packed our bags, expecting to be admitted, and headed for KKCH AGAIN on this day. Now what was most UNexpected, was that Ruvie was totally fine by the time we got there. The senior doc decided we could go back, but gave us Prednisolone for the next few days, something which the earlier doc did not give, because she felt he didn't respond to the CGH dose, but instead was very receptive to Ventolin.

And since he fell asleep in the car on the way back, we decided not to wake him up and go through all the trauma of giving him the pred. He's been fine all night long.

So now it's time to wake him up and have round 5 or so of The Chamber.