Isn't that just a bit judgemental? As a parent, I am not a trained medical professional. I have taken my son to the emergency room on several occasions with similar chronic breathing difficulties. Sometimes they have admitted him and put him in hospital on oxygen and chewed me out for not bringing him in sooner. Other times, the breathing has been just as labored, they send him home with me and treat me as if I'm a pushy parent with nothing better to do than to come to the emergency room. I end up staying up all night listening to him trying to breathe and praying that he won't stop breathing before I can get him to the doctor the next day. If medical professionals treat the same situation in totally different ways, how is a parent with no medical training supposed to know when something is an emergency or not? With my child (or any child) I would rather err on the side of caution!