Sunday, February 21, 2010

Hospitals, RSV, Crappy Dr. Offices...

Sooo... Friday Heidi vomited an obscene amount and i called her Dr. office to inquire if this was something to worry about, they said no, just monitor her temp. Then she developed a stuffy nose on sunday, from there she only got worse, i called her dr on tuesday night, i made an appointment for her for wed. Then we got so much snow i could't take her. Wed night she got even worse, coughing sneezing.. hard time breathing all that.. being that she wasn't even a month yet i started panicking. So i called them again thursday and made a new appointment, it was for four pm. I got there at three thirty thinking that if i arrived early i would be seen quicker. i was mistaken. they told us to wait in the "sick" room then from 3:30 till 4:50 we waited when they decided that we shouldn't be in the "sick" room bc she was too young, then they stripped her down, a sick three month old mind you to her diaper, took her weight then sent her back to the room to wait... for a fucking half hour!!!! WTF is that shit? Then when the dr finally saw her, she told us to go to the hospital for an RSV/Flu test, and not to leave until we heard back from the dr. so i pile her in the car and call my husband to meet us there.. she gets the test.. we go up to the lab to wait for the results, it took them a half hour.(she was positive for RSV) So the lab calls her dr office, we waited an hour and a half for them to call back, no formula no diapers, and the hospital wouldn't give us any. finally i got so mad i was seeing red, i called her doctors and cursed out the on call person, then on min later they called and said they wanted to admit her. ok.. so of course they have diapers and formula galore in pediatrics. but in ob they don't? uggghhh... we get her checked in, she has a chest xray. which thankfully came up clear, she then got stuck on every monitor known to man.. and oxygen... it was really scary and stressful, especially bc the baby next to her looked really bad from the same thing. but thankfully with tons of prayers from people  and good hospital doctors she got to go home, however she has to stay on an apnea monitor for 6 weeks and have nebulizer treatments 6 times a day.

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