Finally had it last nite. Called the TeleHealth (you call this certain
number and a registered nurse will answer - you can talk to them and they'll give suggestions) and the nurse there said i sounded really bad. Even offered to call 911 for me cuz ambulance has oxygen. I said no - didnt want all the ruckus in the neighbourhood. Coughed and threw up a lot of gunk,
Called my bro and he drove me to hospital.

At registration desk, they took my vitals, meds, etc. Then sent me over to another desk for tags. The guy at that desk, rolled away from me when i coughed (dont blame him) and he told me to go outside to the nurse and ask her to put a mask on me. So bro and i went back outside the ER room. The nurse was VERY nice. She guessed who was giving me trouble and went with me to talk to him. He told her that i need mask. She said i cant cuz im asthmatic. He tried again, but nurse beat him to it and said no mask.

Took only few minutes before they called me in cuz of my 'condition' (some waited for hours). I was coughing so much and so hard - ppl moved away from me in the waiting room. I also pulled muscle in chest too. The doc came, checked me out, told nurse to give me 2 'treatments' of asthma meds using
> mask, then prednisone, then another 'treatment'. Each treatment took about 20min.

After the 3 treatments, they took me to x-ray. Came back, doc checked again, said i was still wheezy - gave me another treatment. The internist doc came. Checked me out, and kept me over night - with more treatments and codeine (6 syringes).

Long nite - no sleep. As soon as I was almost totally asleelp - my machine beeped (didnt have enough oxygen). Then there were other ppl talking. They woke me up to take my vitals, breathing tests, more treatments.

Felt better after the 5 or 6 treatments. They promised me breakfast, but nothing came. Not even water. For over 12hours, nothing went inside my mouth except meds.

They finally released me with instructions to call my respirologist for appt for next week, and prescriptions.

I called my respirologist and told the receptionist the ER doctor's instructions (see resp. early next week).But receptionist said *her* doctor said to fit me in sometime in the next few weeks. ( Feel like I'm a 'problem') Fortunately, she said there was a cancellation on Monday, so I'm seeing respt. , then afterwards - my shrink.

Got home around 10am. Stayed home from work today. Tomorrow - we'll see.