Sunday, February 15, 2015

Emergency Room again

Injecting medicine
Yesterday was dry but cold ... and despite the rain of the rpevious night, dust continued to blow in the air. I suffered a 24 hour difficulty in breathing. It was suffocating and by evening the chest was extremely painful. Practically it was a daylong asthma attack. Went off to hospital in the evening and they treated me immediately. Stayed there for 3 hours till my blood tests returned from the laboratory. I practically had no potassium in my body - 2 out of a scale of 10. They insisted that I had to push the potassium level up. At the same time my eosinophils were super high ... which the docs say is normal as it's linked to my asthma and allergy attack. 

Fai Chun on my door
This time there was another nurse. I'm terrified because the former one couldn't get the catheter into my veins right and had made several tries. It was extremely painful and lots of blood everywhere. This time the nurse was good ... just one painful jab. And removing the catheter was much better ... didn't feel it at all. He kept counting one to ten in arabic and asked me to repeat with him. While concentrating on counting, he pulled out the catheter and i didn't even know it was done. Smart move.

Now the rain is falling again and the temp. is falling even lower. Forecast is for heavy rain in the next few days and snow on Thursday. I'm staying home and cleaning my room for the New Year. Hope the Goat will be good to me. Thanks for the Fai Chun ... I got it up on my door.