Parents with children that have asthma?!
Question: How are your feelings on your child having asthma? Are there financial hard ships? Emotional problems? Any information that you could give me on your personal experience with your child having asthma would be very helpful. I am a college student studying to be a respiratory therapist and this is what our paper is due on this semester. ANYTHING that you have will be VERY helpful! Thank you soo much for your time!
Answers: How are your feelings on your child having asthma? Are there financial hard ships? Emotional problems? Any information that you could give me on your personal experience with your child having asthma would be very helpful. I am a college student studying to be a respiratory therapist and this is what our paper is due on this semester. ANYTHING that you have will be VERY helpful! Thank you soo much for your time!
I'm a respiratory therapist who has a child and a dog with asthma. Go figure!
I was already an RT when my child was diagnosed so my reaction was not as severe as my other family members. I knew that it could be controlled. Luckily, I had the skill sets to help with this control. I, actually, left a much trusted pediatrician because I knew that something was wrong but he poo-pooed me and told me I was an over protective mother. My child had respiratory complications EVERY year since the age of about 1 1/2 to 2 years old. Every year it was the same routine, albuterol syrup and prednisone. After a few years I demanded testing. My doctor refused to help, so we found another doctor. This doctor was very caring and understanding. We were given a PFT and were diagnosed with mild/moderate asthma.
Financially it can be expensive. Luckily, both me and her father cover her on our insurance. Because she has 2 insurances, we don't pay office or hospital copays. Even with insurance though, I spend an average of $120 a month on her meds. During the winter, if she gets an infection, I can spend as much as $250 on copays for meds. Add in the cost for allergen free items and I can see how it would be over whelming for some people.
My child actually had no problem with having asthma until she got older. She became embarrassed about having to use her inhaler in public (especially at school) and stopped taking her meds. She refuses to take her maintenance drugs and will lie and tell me that she has. I, sometimes, resort to giving her the old prison routine (lift your tongue, let me see inside your cheeks etc.) She HATES the fact that she's different and will sometimes be very pigheaded. Her doctors have spoken to her. I've spoken to her and even sent her to asthma camp. Nothing is working so far. Thankfully, she has not had a severe attack . I will continue working on her and I believe with time, she will come around. She's going through "growing pains" right now.
We have encounter HUGE problems with our local school system . It's been a long difficult road trying to get the school system to understand and assist her. It would be too long and drawn out to be able to go into it here but we had to get an attorney involved.
Good luck with your schooling and career. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance!
My husbands parents had a much harder time financially because they did not have any insurance and my husband ended up in the hospital quite often with his asthma in the 1950's. The treatment at the time was a steam tent or an oxygen tent. My daughter was diagnosed at age 5 and I had a hard time understanding because I thought she was just coughing. Because we had an HMO, the financial burden wasn't as great, but she missed a lot of school due to illness. The school district made her go to counseling for absences. Our family doctor refused to let her use an inhaler until she was an adult, the medication at the time was theophiline, which never seemed to help. Now my grandson has asthma and is on Singulair, but his other grandparents tell him he doesn't need medication, he just needs to stay away from cats. My daughter tells them its not their call, but they won't give him his Singulair when he visits them.
Well i am a teenager with asthma. If i get a cold, it much harder to me b/c its hard for me to breah as is and a cold makes it just that much harder. It can be expensive denpending on insurance b/c u have to get the inhalers and i am also on adavir and sometimes i have to go the ER w/ a asthma attack or something. I dont really have any emotional problems tho. I wish i didnt have it but it really doesnt change ur life that much.
when she first got sick I was told that she had alergies. I have just recently been told by the doctors that she also has asthma. I get upset when she coughs alot and sometimes it is almost as if she will throw up. She has now been sick for three weeks running a fever and I have taken her to the hospital emergency room twice. They cannot find anything else wrong with her. I question that because of the fever that she runs every day for the last several weeks. It gets worse at night. So I guess to sum it all up I have emotional issues with my child having asthma along with allergies.