Nate's 1st Day of School & Asthma Diagnosis

Nate's first day of Kinder 3's was a success and no tears were shed by either of us.  The morning started off a little rough; Nate didn't really want to hold his book bag for pictures outside the house and then fussed almost the entire ride to school.  But once he got out of the truck and saw the other kids it was all good.  He had a small meltdown when I tried to take him to the bathroom (he's recently developed a fear of public restrooms) but he was ready for class to start and tried to get into the room before his teacher even opened the door.  He went in and washed his hands all by himself, found his animal on the chart and signed himself in and then started roaming the room looking for stuff to get into.  I gave him a hi-five, hug and kiss and told him to have a good day and I would see him at 3:20. 

 

We weren't that lucky the next day.  I got a call from Nate's teacher around noon saying that he was having a hard time breathing.  The call was a little weird though because there was a parent volunteer in the classroom who was a nurse and was telling the teacher exactly what was going on so the teacher was relaying info to me. My first response was he needs a breathing treatment, I'll come get him.  But then the nurse said the teacher was saying the wrong thing and she didn't mean to scare me.  I asked if he was having retractions and she said no, but 30 seconds later the nurse said tell mom to come get him.  I quickly pack up at work and as I'm walking out the door I get a call from the school asking if I was in route and that if things got worse they were going to call EMS which of course freaked me out.  I called the pediatrician and got an appointment for 1:50 but when I got to the school everyone agreed it had gotten worse and I really needed to take him to the ER ASAP.  The nurse didn't want me to be alone in case things took a turn for the worse so the principal drove us.  We were immediately taken back and they started a breathing treatment and gave him a steroid shot.  Fortunately the breathing treatment helped quickly so we were only there a couple of hours to make sure he was okay.  So Nate is now officially diagnosed with asthma; he's had 2 wheezing attacks before but only with a cold so this is the first time he's had an attack out of the blue.  He's doing much better and we now have an asthma action plan on file with the school.