thursdays report
Friday/August/2008 07:41 AM Barrie`s BlogBarrie`s
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Hi Gang,
Today was another good visit, other than the fact that when I arrived at the hospital at 2.30 pm Dad was having an asthma attack! He was really wheezy and was struggling for breath, he was able to tell me that they had changed his Ventilator medication from yesterday and that he had an allergic reaction to it. This caused his airways to dilate and hence his attack! It was the second time today that they had administrated this new medication and both times he had the same reaction. I managed to eventually get the doctor and explain that he needed to stop this medications and get him on some ventolin, like NOW PLEASE! This seemed to do the job and within 5 mins we had the ventolin mask on and this stayed on for 20 mins, this did the job, after that he was breathing normally, no more panic attacks!
The rest of the visit was great, I managed to stay with Dad for 2 and half hours, it was great, I also stayed whilst he was having his pysio therapy and he is doing better and better every day, I explained the importance of keeping this going outside of class time, as he may as well be doing as much as he can, without overdoing of course, whilst he is laying there, "keep those muscles flexing dad, you will need them soon".
Anyway we had a good chat and a laugh about calling room service for 2 pints of larger and a packet of crisps! The visit went really well once we got the asthma sorted and I told Dad that Paul the chef would be coming tomorrow and hopefully will be cooking something nice dinner!!!
I left at 5 ish soaking wet as usual.
Looking forward to more fun and games tomorrow.
That's all for now folks
Max
Today was another good visit, other than the fact that when I arrived at the hospital at 2.30 pm Dad was having an asthma attack! He was really wheezy and was struggling for breath, he was able to tell me that they had changed his Ventilator medication from yesterday and that he had an allergic reaction to it. This caused his airways to dilate and hence his attack! It was the second time today that they had administrated this new medication and both times he had the same reaction. I managed to eventually get the doctor and explain that he needed to stop this medications and get him on some ventolin, like NOW PLEASE! This seemed to do the job and within 5 mins we had the ventolin mask on and this stayed on for 20 mins, this did the job, after that he was breathing normally, no more panic attacks!
The rest of the visit was great, I managed to stay with Dad for 2 and half hours, it was great, I also stayed whilst he was having his pysio therapy and he is doing better and better every day, I explained the importance of keeping this going outside of class time, as he may as well be doing as much as he can, without overdoing of course, whilst he is laying there, "keep those muscles flexing dad, you will need them soon".
Anyway we had a good chat and a laugh about calling room service for 2 pints of larger and a packet of crisps! The visit went really well once we got the asthma sorted and I told Dad that Paul the chef would be coming tomorrow and hopefully will be cooking something nice dinner!!!
I left at 5 ish soaking wet as usual.
Looking forward to more fun and games tomorrow.
That's all for now folks
Max