Christopher's ambulance trip

 What a stressfull couple of days. It started when Kim called me to tell me to be on alert since Christopher had been wheezing when they got up yesterday morning. She gave him a breathing treatment and he seemed to be fine. On thursdays she takes the kids to school. He seemed fine when she dropped him off except he would cough once in a while. Then she gets the call to have someone come and get him as he was wheezing and coughing.. before she could call me the school calls her that they are putting Christopher into an ambulance to take to the hospital. He was listless and wheezing a lot. The EMTs were giving him a breathing treatment in the ambulance before transfering him to MTMC. ( they had to give him another treatment before they got to the hospital because he was wheezing so bad. Kim called me as I was the closest to the hospital and we were not sure how he would react to a bunch of strangers. So I head to MTSU, I beat the ambulance, they had not even called from the ambulance to tell the hospital they were on the way. So I waited and waited.
Kim, driving from work in Brentwood, TN, and the ambulance arrived about the same time. So she and I went back to the ER room not knowing what we would find. Well Christopher was talking a mile a minute, from all the steroids in the breathing treatments.  We were also pleasantly supprised to find the teachers assistant, Ms Toliver, was with him. She didn't want him to get scared when he didn't know anyone. She was also having to hold him in the ER bed as he was hyper active.
After being checked in and the usual listening to his chest, he got another breathing treatment. The mask alows for the "steam" to excape thru opening. Of course with his obscesion with trains, He said he was a "steamy"  i.e. steam engine. He did everything they ask him to do except sit still. Somewhere along this time he said he was acting "crazy".
They also gave him a shot of steriods. The Nurse ask him to lay on his tummy and look toward me. He did, they gave him the shot in his 'bum', his reaction was OUCH  OW OW. No fighting the shot. Between the breathing treatment and the shot the wheezing eased off. So after observing him for a bit to see if the wheezing returned, Kim was able to take him home. On the stop at discharge he ask the gal if she had a lollipop, she said no but thought they might find him a popcicle. He got a grape one and it was eaten before they got to the car.
He had fused earlier that he had not had his lunch, so a stop at McDonalds was necessary.
Typical of a Christopherism was: He told the EMTs that they were on the road to Toys-r-Us. If they didn't know how to get there he would tell them what road to take. He wanted them to take him to Toys-r-Us then to the hospital.
I went to pick up Savannah at school. She got to the car and before she even opened the door, she started to cry and ask where her brother was. I told her that Christopher had gotten sick at school and he was home with mommy. She needed my phone to call mommy "right Now".  She was sure Christopher was in the hospital not able to breathe. She went into a flull blown crying, talking and trying to catch her breath. She talked to Kim and then talked to Christopher but She didn't settle til she saw Christopher at home.
When they got up friday morning, Christopher was asleep sitting up on the couch. Wheezing again. Kim gave him a breathing treatment and his oral steriod medicine. Still wheezing a little, so he came to Nana's. He sat on the couch with his cars fleece blanket and his spiderman pillow most of the day. Watching Lil Eiestein has always calmed him. so he watch them for a while. Gave him a treatment at 1 o'clock. He told me how to put the inhalier into the mask thingee and he held it to his face. No fuss, he just did it. He said he needed to get better so he could go to school and to the zoo next week. Kim planned to go with the class to the zoo, not sure they would let him go if one of the family wasn't along.
Mrs Smith and Ms Toliver handled Christopher and the other kids very well. His class mates knew he was coughing and had been taken to the nurse and that he had to leave. They would not have been able to see the ambulance. But I am sure he will tell them next week all about it.
TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT FOR ME and the rest of the family!!