ER We Come!

M's got "reactive airways." It's like asthma, leaving him short of breath. He called the advice nurse this morning, and she convinced him he needed to go to the ER - so he picked me up from work and we spent the next 4 hours waiting for tests, getting breathing treatments, and precautionary chest x-ray and EKG. Bottom line: heart's fine, needs to take medicine to relax the lungs, and come back for a checkup in a week. He felt embarrassed to be taking up ER space and staff time, but they were cool with it - 6 people on the "team" made sure he got a thorough checkup, and we didn't have to wait in line at the pharmacy.