My Little Girl Is Sick... Again!

The little girl is confined in the hospital… again :(

She was still fine after her UN program in school last Thursday. But she started to become a little feverish come late afternoon. I just gave her some paracetamol to lower her temperature.


Then on Friday, while I was at work, I got frequent calls from my Mom who updated me of Caitlin’s condition. She said the little girl was REALLY not feeling well, a clear indication of which is that my little girl has been sleeping the whole day and didn’t want to eat anything. Her fever even registered 38.9 degrees Celsius at one point during the day. I also reported these to hubby every time I get updates from my Mom. We agreed that we’d take Caitlin to her pediatrician the following day.

When I got home from work, I checked on my little girl and asked if she wants me to take her to the hospital. She said she just wanted to sleep and rest. But I noticed that she’s having a hard time breathing. You see, she has asthma (which she unfortunately got from my side of the family). I just waited for hubby to get home from work and we rushed her to the hospital’s ER.


When we arrived at the ER, the nurse on duty immediately approached us. He asked what the problem was and then he called the resident pedia on duty. We waited.

When the pedia arrived, she asked us some more questions. Caitlin is having an asthma attack! The pedia instructed the nurses to hookup Caitlin with an oxygen tank and to nebulize her 3x -- once every 30 minutes. Little girl was also hooked up with a machine that monitored her heart rate and was also taken to the Radiology Section for some x-rays. I was then asked to go to the Admitting Section and have Caitlin admitted.



The oxygen was taken off on Saturday afternoon and Caitlin has been responding well to the medicines and nebulization. Her IV was removed last night. Thank God!

Good thing we all have health plans. Otherwise, we may have just waited the next day to bring her to her pedia instead of rushing her to the ER. You know how much emergency services cost!

I hope she can be discharged by tomorrow.