@#*%!! Asthma!!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I don't believe this........for the first time in YEARS I've had to miss work because of asthma! I, who never call in unless I can't get my head off the pillow (OR out of the toilet), even had to go home early last night because I was working so hard to breathe that the respiratory therapist said she could hear me huffing and puffing halfway down the hall! I was wondering why I was getting so frustrated and crabby (not that having 6 patients, discharging three of them at the same time, sending one to surgery, admitting one, and listening to another one whine incessantly had anything to do with it :rolleyes: ). My 02 sats were OK on room air, I wasn't too obstructed, but I was getting that way quick........I didn't realize how bad it was until I sat down for a couple of minutes and started catching my breath, and one of the department managers said "You don't look so good......do you think you should go home?"

At first I said No, of course not, but then I realized how bone-tired I was, and I still had three hours to go. So I finished up the three discharge charts I had sitting on the table, went down to RT for a nebulizer tx, and went home to bed!

When I woke up this morning, I felt even worse........it winded me just to climb the stairs in my house, and most of the time I can almost RUN up them, so I knew I'd better stay home and do my nebs at home Q4hrs. just like I make the kids do when THEIR asthma flares up. Tonight, it's considerably better........but this is so weird, I NEVER have a major attack like this without it being set off by a cold or bronchitis. I haven't been ill since last winter, when I had that horrid flu that lasted almost a month, and I've felt fine even through this.......I just can't breathe very well, is all. :uhoh21:

Hopefully it will subside by tomorrow, cuz I've got things to do this weekend and I DON'T want to have to go on prednisone. DANG!! :angryfire

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Hope you feel better soon, not nice when you can't get your breath I know as I am also asthmatic, but thankfully not had an attack for a few yrs. Look after yourself (((((((hugs))))))

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