So I managed to avoid it since December but now I'm back.
I thought I was doing well (I had normal FeNO3 levels back in March) but hey I guess that is the joy of brittle asthma!!!
I managed to entirely avoid ICU care this time and I'm hoping it'll be a quick stay..but I missed my Spanish AS resit today so...
I actually got blue-lighted to RPH but Chorley A&E has closed so RPH were totally over capacity and excessively busy. They didn't have enough beds. They didn't do any peak flows, they didn't have monitors on me, and they tried to discharge me while I was so tight I couldn't speak. So my dad took me to RBH instead and that's where I am now after excellent care from the resus team yet again.
Currently on MAU but going to be moved to a ward soon. Just had customary first-night pizza with my dad and he's brought me plenty to keep me occupied.
I am currently in the middle of a cluster episode so I'm having daily cluster attacks. I had a particularly bad one yesterday which lasted until nearly midday today. I have my preventatives and my injections and the nurses have been super-resourceful, using sample tube bags with ice in as ice packs! My dad has just gone to Boots down the road to get me some proper ones which won't leak and are a little bigger (hopefully) so...
On the brighter side, one of the women I train with at ice hockey is going to visit me tomorrow I'm so happy, I wasn't expecting it and it's a lovely gesture
But yeah so I'm back..hopefully not for too long.
-- Matt