Update on My Child with the Asthma Attack

The little girl I wrote about who was admitted in severe respiratory distress due to an asthma attack is greatly improved and was able to be discharged home yesterday.  It was a very reaffirming moment!  What's even more exciting is that when I came into round yesterday morning, one of the nurses had gotten a water bottle and was making a spacer for her to take home with a salbuterol inhaler to use when she had another asthma attack.  I was so impressed that they observed what we did and applied it to the patient.  It will definitely help keep her safer in the future.  And hopefully they will be able to do that for more patients with asthma.  The little girl is now a wild woman (probably from the exorbitant amount of steroids we gave her) and is running around the ward laughing and playing.  It was a great outcome.

Breathing better and running at the camera!

Making a spacer in the pediatric ward

It's moments like these that help remind me why I went into medicine.