Asthma attack

Ugh what a bad night we both had last night, more so David. 

He's been coughing like mad last few days from some kind of Spring allergies I think. Even I'm getting bad allergies this year, with my nose and eyes watering constantly when I'm out of the house. I got some eye drops to see if that might reduce the irritation which helps somewhat.

But last night David woke up at about 2am and started like a coughing fit. It went on and on, poor thing. Eventually he had to get up and have some warm tea on top of the asthma puffer to try and stop the coughing, as he was having trouble breathing lying down. At one point I nearly asked him if he needed an ambulance but he was managing better sitting up. After a while the coughing settled a bit enough to go back to sleep. He's off work for a few days anyway because he just hasn't been well enough to go.

I remember when I had a similar experience when I was in hospital. Started with coughing one night and ended up almost in a panic attack because it was so hard to breath. Very scary.

We've had all those bushfires this year already and I'm wondering if that's got something to do with it. I've never had Spring allergies like this before.