Visit to the ER

Last week I took off work to spend some time with the family before they start school again. The boys start this Monday (DJ's senior year). We went camping at Lake Jennings which is about 20 minutes from home and on Monday night after an unprofitable day of fishing, we got back to the campsite, ate dinner and sat around the campfire. After eating some smores, Jessica's asthma started getting pretty bad. She had used her inhaler a little more than normal for about a week or so and I'm sure the dust and smoke from the fire weren't helping things much.

Anyway, about 8:30 she was very short of breath and had a lot of tightness in her chest. She wasn't handling it well and to be honest, neither were her parents. We rushed her to the Grossmont Emergency Room (I got to drive fast without Sharon hassling me) and even though they had an average wait time of 6 hours (brutal), they got her in for a breathing treatment in about 10 minutes or so. That helped quite a bit. 

Then they took her for a chest x-ray and then back to a room in the ER for some blood work.

We would have been able to leave shortly after that, but her blood test showed that her potassium levels were very low. So they hooked her up to an IV and gave her 2 units of potassium. 

We got there at 8:40 PM and we checked her out at 5 AM. At least the Olympics were on TV, which Sharon and I watched while Jessica slept. 

She's much better and after her follow-up appointment with her regular doc on Thursday, we feel we'll have a good handle on it moving forward. I'm grateful that God's hand was on her and she came through with no lingering problems.