Ok so Kehan really enjoys having us run him in! Not really but so far he is the only who has had to go to the ER and he has needed it twice so far this year!
Friday night into early Saturday morning Kehan had us in quite a frenzy. I was woken up by his coughing and crying around 12:15am. I went to his room and he could hardly breathe and was trying to squeak out "Mom,help". That is about the scariest moment in my life so far. Knowing that I could not really do a lot for him but him wanting me to fix it. I picked him up and brought him to our room and gave him to Quinten while I ran downstairs and put together the nebulizer and got the albuterol in it. I brought it up stairs and started to give him the treatment while still trying to calm him down so he wasn't crying anymore. He got a little better. Towards the end of the treatment I turned the shower on. Knowing he would need more than just the one treatment. Quinten sat in the shower with him while I called around trying to figure out it I could give him another one or not. I was told not to as it would speed his heart up too much. So we rushed him into the ER in TRF. It took us a total of 13 min to get there....it is usually about a 20-25 min drive. They let me walk right in and they started him on an epinephrine nebulizer treatment. He was getting better really fast with that. AFter that they gave him Pulmicort nebulizer treatment and oral Prednisone. Checked his ears and he had an ear infection too. We got his medicine and went home. We were home by 2:30am. Kehan is doing well now. Although he is refusing to take his antibiotics for his ear and will nto take his prednisone either. That stuff tastes terrible! We have tried everything they have recommended with no luck. I am not worried about it though as he is doing really good with just the nebulizer treatments. I think I will bring him in tomorrow to his regular doc just to have him checked and to see what he has to say about his ear.
So our 4th of July had fireworks of its own! Thankfully God has once again blessed us by modern medicines to save Kehan!
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