Chase's Adventure

On Wednesday of this week, my 5 year old brother Chase was admitted to Eisenhower for asthma. He had spent 3 hours in his family practitioner's office with my mom, doing breathing treatments, and he had a shot of prednisone (a steroid that helps open his airways). They were also sent home with a liquid suspension of the prednisone. As soon as he took that, he threw it up. Within an hour, they were back at the DR's office. It was clear at that point that he needed to be admitted right away. They did another breathing treatment, just to get him through admissions. His oxygen saturation was in the 8Os, and it needs to be at least 92. When I showed up at the hospital, he was is pretty good spirits, but he was laboring for every breath and would go into uncontrollable coughing fits. It was so sad to see him struggling to breath. Everything was so new and he was so brave! They did x-rays, IVs, bloodwork, and LOTS of albuteral (spelling??) treatments with a mask, and had him on oxygen when he couldn't get enough if it on his own. He has been the only child in the pediatric wing of Eisenhower, so he gets lots of attention and the nurses are just for him! The hospital also brought in puppies for him to play with in his room :)  Yesterday he was allowed to walk to the pediatrics playroom and play for awhile. The first night, his O2 saturation was still in the 8Os but he did well last night so we are hoping for a release today. He has been such a trooper through all of this, and only cried a little when they drew his blood and inserted his IV. Please send up a prayer for him and my family. My mom has been allowed to spend the night with him the entire time so that was a huge blessing. The day he was admitted was my parents 25th anniversary! They both said there was nowhere else they'd rather be :)  I'll update as soon as I here from them.