Emergency Ward again

Emergency Ward: 6th time
this year

Spoke too soon. Am back in Emergency Ward at the French Hospital. After carrying pails of compost 2 floors down to the courtyard to fertilise the plants, a slow attack of asthma started. It was still manageable during the evening but by 2am I practically suffocated. I couldn't get to hospital as it was only 4 degrees outside and there was no transport and I couldn't walk 2 km to the French Hospital which is the closest to my house. I managed to celebrate Mass but after that began to collapse.

At the Emergency Ward the panicky nurse drove the catheter into my arm but it hurt very much ... and like the last time, he missed the vein but instead of withdrawing it, he manipulated the catheter tube inside my arm with his 2 thumbs until it went inside the vein. Can you imagine the pain? If I didn't die of asphyxiation, I'd have died of maltreatment. Anyway they also gave me oxygen TOGETHER with a nebuliser ... had the mask over the face as well as tubes into my nostrils.

Now I have loads of medication to take ... including Prednesone. Simply hate that. All the 5 types of medication make me very sleepy. I can't function during the day. And I have tons of work waiting for me.

It's not a fun way to pass the New Year.