KC's drug-addled, sleep-deprived "series of moments" of the day:
At the ER the PA decided to put me on nebulized albuterol because my normal albuterol inhaler wasn't having much of an effect. She asked if I had a nebulizer at home. I thought I did. So she gave us three doses to take home with us, and a scrip for more.
Turns out what I have is NOT a nebulizer, it's an optimizer chamber for use with a regular inhaler. No biggee...online search says Walgreens carries them. So hubby trucks over there after work. No go. You have to have a prescription to buy a nebulizer. It doesn't matter that you have a prescription for a drug that requires the nebulizer as a delivery method. So he calls Story Co ER to connect with the PA...turns out they have the nebulizer there...so he dropped by there on his way home. One GOOD thing...no charge; it's covered by my insurance.
So after waking me up when he called from Walgreens, he comes home and starts unloading it on the desk in front of a very groggy me...but puts the instructions on a table behind him so that I can't look at them. He thinks he's moving really slowly showing me how to put it together, my head is spinning and I haven't gotten past the plug it in stage (which I thought he did). After a minor squabble due mostly to me still feeling like crap, he escapes to go fill the prescription, leaving me with the instructions and the (mostly) assembled nebulizer. I read through the instructions, fill the reservoir with the dose packet, and start breathing. You're supposed to breathe as deeply as possible until it stops missing and the liquid is all gone - should take 5-15 minutes depending on how deeply you breathe. I can't breathe deeply without getting very lightheaded, so I figure it's going to take the full 15 minutes. PapaLew gets back about when I should be done, and the liquid is just as full as when I started. He said "keep going". So I keep going. Fifteen minutes later I tell him it's still just as full...what am I doing wrong. He comes over to look at it and me using it, and reaches over and plugs it in.
I'm really really stupid when I'm sick.