I've had asthma since I was 14. Its very controlled though. In fact, I've only ever needed hospital treatment once. Its more or less allergy-triggered asthma and that one time I'd been to a barn dance right in the middle of a field of Rape Seed plants!! Hay fever kicked in .... inhalers stopped doing much at all and I ended up nebulised. That was 5 years ago.
Since then I have had my blue inhaler, a brown one and a green one. As long as I remember to take the brown one every day I don't really need the rest.
That was until a couple of weeks ago. I got a cold and things have deteriorated since then. I've been needing my blue inhaler about 6 times day!
I woke up at 5 am this morning feeling like someone was lying on my chest. I took my inhaler 5 times before i felt remotely calm and able to breathe properly. I thought DH was going to have to take me to hospital.
Anyway.... went to the GP at 10.30 and have been put on a course of steroids. I definitely don't have a chest infection so cannot be the cold causing this.
The only conclusion is the rabbit! Ds has had a hbouse rabbit for 3 yrs. He's always made me a bit snuffly, but never like this. The rabbit had been sent to live with my sister since May as dd started to crawl and wouldn't leave him alone!
But we got him back 2 or 3 wks ago..... and well it doesn't take a genius to work it out.
Now I know I've got to get rid of the rabbit, but ds is SOOOOOOOO happy to have him home. He keeps telling me how sad he was when the rabbit lived at Aunty *'s house. And saying how much he loves his bunny.
How do I break the news to him without him needing 20 yrs of counselling to get over what his Mother did!