Asthma attack!

We thought that there would be no more visits to the emergency and no more stay at the hospital this year but we were wrong. It's out of our control....

Joshua had an episode 2 weeks ago. He had an asthma attack and we thought it was just a normal one. But days passed by and we noticed that instead of him getting well with ventolin, he was getting worse and his lips turned blue when he coughed. So we decided to take him to the emergency.

The nurses assessed him and sure enough, his oxygen was down to 86 so they took him in right away. As usual, they gave him oral steroids (which I was told was equivalent to 3 years of QVAR, another kind of puff/steroid for people with asthma). He didn't get better so they had to admit him for the night. Both Children's hospital and PLC were full so they had to wait for a bed to be available. PLC had it first so they transferred him there thru an ambulance.

To make our story short, Joshua stayed at the hospital for 7 days and went home on oxygen. He'll be on it for a month and will be checked to see if he'll be ok without it.

We've learned that Joscel and Joshua were that close as brother and sister. They were looking for each other (Joscel asking for her BOBO and Joshua asking for his SISI). It was heartbreaking coz they didn't see each other for 3 days. We were in an isolation room so we thought Joscel wasn't allowed to go in. But as soon as the nurses asked for Josh's sister, we took her to see him and it was fun to see how excited they were to see each other!

Here they are, playing nyt-nyt time with their new bear.

Waiting for the discharge papers,,,,,

And back to normal! Yay!