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For 4 weeks I had been thinking about creating a project in Geyser to raise funds for my asthma medicines. At first I was a little embarrassed to do it and that's why I didn't do it right away, but putting the embarrassment aside, I created the project on December 3 of this year.
I was surprised when I received a notification in my wallet saying that they had sent me 100k sats. Life is quite curious, things did not turn out as I had planned, I had to allocate the money to someone else: my daughter. My grandmother would say "God's timing is perfect."
On Friday, November 29, my daughter had a fever, something easy to manage at home and so I did.
On Saturday, November 30, my daughter still had a fever and at night she started coughing.
Sunday, December 1, there is no medical care in health centers, so I continued to manage the fever at home, only with antipyretic syrup, the cough got a little worse, I checked my daughter's throat and saw that it was swollen.
On Monday, December 2, I took her to the nearest health center. The doctor saw her and said it was a common flu, that it was just pharyngitis. He prescribed amoxicillin.
On Tuesday, December 3, I continued to monitor the situation at home and followed the doctor's instructions to the letter, but I noticed that my daughter was not improving, and even began to get worse in the early morning. (I created the project at night.)
On Wednesday, December 4, my daughter was more deprived with the cough and despite having taken antibiotics for 3 days the fever did not go down. At 8:30 am I received this notification that was like a miracle.
And at 9 am I saw my daughter having difficulty breathing and she told me that she felt pain in her chest. I wrote to my husband and told him that I would take our daughter to the emergency room.
I called the doctor and she didn't have an appointment available for Wednesday, but for Thursday. So while the doctor couldn't see her, I went to the public hospital. We spent the whole day at the hospital, from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. They treated my daughter, took a chest x-ray, gave her a nebulizer, and did blood tests.
My daughter arrived at the hospital with oxygen saturation at 94. As the day progressed and they continued to nebulize her, her oxygen improved.
By nightfall, my daughter's saturation was at 98. She still had a fever because it never went down. The doctor who treated her said the diagnosis was pneumonia. He prescribed the antibiotic azithromycin and told me to stop the treatment she had been given at the health center on Monday. He discharged her and I took my daughter home. She slept with a fever and a cough that kept her awake.
Yesterday, Thursday, December 5, I took my daughter to her pediatric pulmonologist. He reviewed the tests and x-rays that had been done the day before. He prescribed 5 medications, 2 inhalers, prednisolone syrup, antibiotics and a spray to reduce nasal inflammation.
All these medications and pediatric care could be covered thanks to the donation they made me on Wednesday. I wanted to thank that anonymous donation for literally saving my daughter. It seems unbelievable what I am going to say, but that donation was the exact amount of what the consultation and the medicines cost me, not one SAT more or one SAT less, everything was exact, so much so that it is a little scary. Was it a divine coincidence? Was it God? Was it destiny? I really don't know, but it came just at the right time. My daughter is the most important thing in my life and her well-being is my priority and I feel enormously grateful for this. To support what I say, here are the photos of the invoices with their respective price and date.
I did not stick with the diagnosis they gave me at the hospital because they are general practitioners, not specialists. Once, thanks to my stubbornness and instinct, I took her to her pediatrician. Her diagnosis was the following: Thank goodness my daughter had not yet developed pneumonia, it was bronchitis that was getting complicated and given my asthma history, my daughter has been affected, she has not developed asthma but she is a little more susceptible than other children to respiratory diseases and that is why she had this crisis of lack of oxygen. The antibiotics that they had prescribed at the health center and at the hospital were wrong for the infection that my daughter has. Thanks to the treatment that the doctor prescribed, my daughter no longer has a fever, that is an indication that the infection is ending. The oxygen saturation is fine, she still has a cough because the inflammation in the respiratory tract takes longer to heal.
Conclusion: Trust your attempts as parents, if you think something is not right with your children it is because something really is happening. Have a pediatric oximeter in your first aid kit, that was a key element to realize that my daughter was not well and that the medicines were not working, if I had not had it my daughter could have fainted unconscious from not being able to breathe and the bronchitis would have progressed further until it became pneumonia.
Again, thanks Geyser and thanks SN.
My son went through a pneumonia too, recently. Eventually, it got worse, and he ended up being hospitalized for a few days. I was very happy to have both government-subsidized healthcare as well as a small complementary private insurance. We ended only paying very little money out of pocket for the care he got.
I know this platform hosts many people who are very skeptical of government support, but I for one, believe that in this instance of healthcare, it is a good thing. I likely pay more money in taxes to healthcare than what I get in return as I am relatively healthy, but I know some people who pay much less taxes but already got much more healthcare support.
There are voluntary non-government schemes to achieve the same goal, so I'm not necessarily advocating for government healthcare, but some kind of centralized redistribution of wealth (be it a Geyser fund, private insurance, voluntary pooling of money for healthcare, government support,...) can make sure one never has to chose between their kid's life and putting food on the table.
I'm sorry to hijack your post for this. I'm happy your kid got the care they needed.
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Don't apologize, this space is free to talk or share stories. How did you handle your son's pneumonia? I'm going crazy, I'm very paranoid, and I'm afraid that this will get out of control and that my daughter won't be able to receive good medical care. I already took her to the doctor and she's taking all her medicines, but her cough still won't go away and that scares me a lot because I think she still can't breathe or that she's not getting better. Did your son take many days to recover? There are public hospitals here, and people who have comprehensive social insurance can receive medical care and tests for free, but the doctors are not very good.
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He unfortunately is quite sensitive to lung infections. It often takes several days to resolve.
We only get antibiotics when it is medically confirmed. I like that about the hospital we go to. Many parents/doctors will go for antibiotics straight away, even when it is not sure yet if its viral or bacterial. I don't like that. Superbacteria due to bad use of antibiotics is real, so antibiotics should not be abused.
We have a little home-nebulizer now, so nebulizing is part of his routine whenever he coughs. The doctors here like to say I need to hit his back with a cupped hand regularly when he coughs, so I do that (even though I am not sure it is actually useful or not, but it doesn't hurt to do it). Some other cough meds, but not sure what exactly they are.
Mostly, it's a matter of time to recover while making sure it doesn't evolve from bronchitis into pneumonia. Pneumonia really needs medical attention as it can get bad if it is not properly taken care of.
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I completely understand what you're saying about antibiotics. Here at the health centers they like to send antibiotics just because, just because, and just in case, that's why I don't like to take her to those health centers. Monday was the exception because the fever wouldn't go away and the cough got worse. It's essential to live in places where there's good medical care, especially when you have children. I also have a nebulizer, but I've never used it for my daughter. I found it funny that thing about patting the back, that technique is recommended by grandmothers on this side of the world, they say it helps loosen the phlegm in the lungs, no doctor has recommended it to me yet, since not all coughs mean phlegm.
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Prayers to you and your family 🙏
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Amén
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 6 Dec
I'm very happy that your daughter got better. I had pretty bad bronchitis as a child, and I still need an inhaler occasionally as an adult. Healthcare here, whole not perfect, is much better than what you're going through.
Good luck and stay safe.
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Respiratory diseases are not a game, they must be taken very seriously, they progress quickly and if you don't stop them in time they can be fatal. Wow, it really affected you a lot, so your lungs were delicate after that. Thank you for understanding me and thank you for the words of support.
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This community is incredible! i'm glad they helped your daughter!
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Only through Bitcoin do these stories flow... and every day I am more impressed by how essential, useful and valuable the community in SN is. I recently read the following
"There is no human action more honest and full of good intentions than doing a Zap to another person"
🙏😌 I hope your daughter gets better soon, and I pray that you reach the goal of your project as soon as possible. Blessings!!
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