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As I've blogged for the past week or so, me and Mum have both been down with a horrific version of the flu, and as much as it's getting better, Mum was struggling with her breathing yesterday. She may or may not have had an asthma attack, we're not quite sure.
So, we rang up our new GP, and they suggested she needed to head to A&E.
We go through this practically every time a flu/asthma issue happens, almost every other year, and our old GP would've normally just prescribed some steroids, but I guess this new GP isn't up on how we do things, so .. ..
We got our neighbour to drop us off at the local hospital.
The hospital, as the crow flies, is closer to us than the GP. But there's a ruddy great river in the way, so to get there we have to go all the way into town and back out again. Bit of a pain in the arse, but .. OK, whatever. Stupid "world" being all lumpy and hilly and wet and shit..


So we got there ok, and neighbour waved us goodbye and told up which part of the hospital we should be going to.

We headed in, Mum got through the triage within about 10 minutes, and then we sat waiting for her to be seen to, which took about half hour or so.
Things were going well! We'd be home within the hour, surely!
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.... Right?!

Oxygen levels were the main concern, with Mum's Blood Oxygen being "borderline low", so they put her on a drip, gave her oxygen, etc.
A couple of hours later, more tests, and though her Bloody Oxygen had gotten better, it was still borderline after all the things they'd given her.
They opted to double-down, do pretty much the exact same things, and another couple of hours later.. Still borderline.. uhoh!!!

A few more tests..
Gosh, this was taking FAR too long, but safety first, right?
By this point in the day, My Uncle had been asked to come and pick me up, because it was looking a lot like they were going to be keeping Mum in overnight, and then all of a sudden, everything seemed to just slot into place.
The doctor took Mum away for another quick test, agreed she was OK enough to go home but with the requirement to record some stats for the next week or so.

I've set up a spreadsheet (woohoo!) to record a bunch of stats. Bloody Oxygen, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate and Peak Flow.
A week of that, and then we'll get down to the GP with a nice big printed spreadsheet full of numbers.

.. Numbers are awesome!

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