My 22 month old son woke up sick on Monday. Fever, cough, vomiting, diarreah, sore throat, achy muscles, headache. Then one by one the rest of my kids and my husband and I.
At first I was managing Persephones fever with tylenol fine. But she kept doing this twisting thing I didn't like. She would twist her body backwards to the right and bend her head backwards to the side. Almost like jacknifing backwards. And her eyes got really vacant. She started staring at the tops of things, above things. Not even trying to focus. This was with the fever or without. She also cried everytime I changed her position. And thats not like her. She's the quietest baby I've ever had. But she's having trouble breathing and they think thas the arching. They said she's retracting. Her sats are normal but the lung xray showed some darkness on one side.
So I called our doctors call line. (which I did the day before as well to check in but couldn't get through all day so I gave up) I didn't get through the call line the second day either but the nurse called me back and after yelling at me because she hadn't been in for her first "well baby" that we don't usually do.. they made an appointment for late that afternoon. I asked if they wanted us in the ER or not and they said no just come in.
An hour after we get there they're sending us to not just the hospital but the biggest hospital around. because they think she has H1N1. Not the one in our hometown either. We had all the kids in the car that had waiting with daddy during our appointment. Not to mention we drive an hour away for someone that is no vax friendly. AND they're all sick. .... now we had to drive to the hospital.
My husband dropped us off at the ER and he went home with the kids.
We were in the ER from 6pm until about 3:30 this morning when they admitted her to the childrens hospital here. They did cultures, catheters, two lumbar punctures (the first one didn't take) blood draws, heel sticks, nebulizer treatments, xrays, antibiotics orally and intramuscular. And a 5 day course of Tamiflu.
They're running a zillion tests but so far all we know is the RSV came back normal. We'll be here another night before we find out the H1N1 results. But in the meantime we're quarantined. We're in a glass room where everyone wears huge masks and gowns. Its very lonely here. I miss my husband.
Anyway, I just wanted to update people and get some positive vibes our way!
At first I was managing Persephones fever with tylenol fine. But she kept doing this twisting thing I didn't like. She would twist her body backwards to the right and bend her head backwards to the side. Almost like jacknifing backwards. And her eyes got really vacant. She started staring at the tops of things, above things. Not even trying to focus. This was with the fever or without. She also cried everytime I changed her position. And thats not like her. She's the quietest baby I've ever had. But she's having trouble breathing and they think thas the arching. They said she's retracting. Her sats are normal but the lung xray showed some darkness on one side.
So I called our doctors call line. (which I did the day before as well to check in but couldn't get through all day so I gave up) I didn't get through the call line the second day either but the nurse called me back and after yelling at me because she hadn't been in for her first "well baby" that we don't usually do.. they made an appointment for late that afternoon. I asked if they wanted us in the ER or not and they said no just come in.
An hour after we get there they're sending us to not just the hospital but the biggest hospital around. because they think she has H1N1. Not the one in our hometown either. We had all the kids in the car that had waiting with daddy during our appointment. Not to mention we drive an hour away for someone that is no vax friendly. AND they're all sick. .... now we had to drive to the hospital.
My husband dropped us off at the ER and he went home with the kids.
We were in the ER from 6pm until about 3:30 this morning when they admitted her to the childrens hospital here. They did cultures, catheters, two lumbar punctures (the first one didn't take) blood draws, heel sticks, nebulizer treatments, xrays, antibiotics orally and intramuscular. And a 5 day course of Tamiflu.
They're running a zillion tests but so far all we know is the RSV came back normal. We'll be here another night before we find out the H1N1 results. But in the meantime we're quarantined. We're in a glass room where everyone wears huge masks and gowns. Its very lonely here. I miss my husband.
Anyway, I just wanted to update people and get some positive vibes our way!
How is he doing? How are the other 4 babies doing? You said they were all sick too- are they getting better? 'Cause that would be a very HOPEFULL sign! I would be calling friends/family to have them bring over FOOD and maybe movies for the family so that you don't have to worry about hubby worrying about all that! I know that the last time I was in the hospital (no kids) I had already sent an email to friends and family asking them to call Michael or bring over a dish for dinner while I was in the hospital....it really, REALLY Helped him to know that he was that loved..... it's so alienating when you are home with sicky kids!
I kinda thought it was odd they wanted to know EXACTLY how much I was nursing.
