A Mother’s Warning: Respiratory Illness and Undiagnosed Asthma

Introduction:

It’s a week that I never want to relive, a terrifying ordeal that brought me face to face with the fragility of life and the importance of listening to our instincts as parents. My 6-year-old son Dawson was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) due to severe respiratory distress. It was a battle between a potential COVID infection, an enterovirus, and undiagnosed asthma that pushed him to the edge. The doctor’s words echoed in my mind, “Your son almost died, and he still could.” It was a…