We spent four hours in the ER with Sean last night. It probably would have been longer if Marjie hadn't dated the doc years ago. Sean has pneumonia. Poor baby! He's been sick all week, first with a fever, then with a cough, then with not being able to eat or drink because he couldn't breath and do anything else at the same time. They gave him a nebulized albuterol treatment, steroids and put him on antibiotics. They told us to use a nebulizer at home. Well, we don't have a nebulizer at home. The respiratory therapist told us home health would bring us one. Sean isn't on our insurance because his parents haven't signed any papers and he isn't on Medicaid (because his parents haven't signed any papers). So, he is basically uninsured and I didn't want to pay the home health agency $400 for a nebulizer. My very crafty husband went online at 1 in the morning to find a way to improvise. (We had the tubing, nebulizer canister and mask from the ER). Don found out the hospital has between 40 and 80 pounds per square inch of pressure, aquarium pumps have 4-7 and airbrush pumps have 35-40. We now have an air brush pump nebulizer. If Sean becomes an artist he is all set. And there was no duct tape involved. I have a smart husband and my dad would be proud!
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