Asthma?

So, Sunday night resulted in another trip to A&E at around midnight.  I'd been busy cleaning all day, got in bed just after 11pm and started coughing, weezing and generally struggling to breathe.  I got up, wandered around, got some fresh air, had my inhaler, drank lots of water but nothing was helping so about an hour later ALS decided it was time to take me to A&E (which took a bit of persuading as I wanted to sleep instead).

Fortunately this time they took me straight through and put me in the Majors Unit (I wasn't that bad but hey, it got me seen quickly).  Within twenty minutes I had been given oxygen, had blood taken etc. and by 1am I was feeling a lot better.  Unfortunately, because I was in the Majors Unit there were a lot of people far more ill than me who needed the doctor's attention so it took a further three hours for a doctor to come and discharge me!  We went on a 4am McDonalds trip (I was tired and hungry), got in bed about 5am and poor ALS had to be at work at 7!  I, on the other hand, was told to call in sick and have a day of bed rest which I did, mostly.

At the request of A&E I made an appointment to see my GP yesterday who booked me in to see the practice nurse today for a spireometry test (you breathe into a tube repeatedly and apparently it'll diagnose asthma in most cases).  So now I just have to wait for a phone call letting me know the results.  Part of me is hoping it is ashtma because then I'll at least have an answer and know how to deal with it but on the other hand it's never nice to be diagnosed with yet another new condition!  On the bright side, they're pretty sure it's nothing more serious.

Knowing my doctor's surgery it'll be well into next week before I hear anything (they're good but VERY slow) so just trying to keep myself busy for the time being and taking my inhaler as needed.  The inhaler itself has done a very good job at stopping the weezing, by the time I got to hospital on Sunday there was no weezing, just a lot of tightness, which is a good sign.  Zumba also apparently helped on Tuesday!  I started weezing a few minutes in, kept going and by the end I was fine - couple of puffs of the inhaler and no issues since - I vote that next time I'm struggling we find a Zumba class instead of A&E!

On a slightly happier note, we had our mini, unofficial engagement party with Ant's family and just a few friends on Saturday night which was lovely.  We had a BBQ and drinks, followed by a couple of hours playing Scene It at his step-brother and his girlfriend's house - rather adult party considering we're all still young but I guess we have to grow up sometime and being so limited by my health I'm not exactly suited to wild nights out anyway!  Either way it was a lovely night and we had some beautiful cards and gifts so we're both feeling good at the moment.

I'm not seeing ALS much at the moment at I'm working 8-4 (as always) this week and he's on lates so working 3-10:30.  It'll be far better next week when he's on 7-3:30 and we're going to do something nice on Saturday so we actually get to spend some time together rather than just pottering around the house!