uggghhhhh!!!

[pinkfloyd45769]

My new baby was sick last week, had a cough,so i took her to her pediatrician and she tells me shes fine unless she starts to have a temp. I was only home from the doc for 2 hours and of course she starts running a temp. Her doc says take her to the ER right away, we get there and they tell us the state law is any baby under three months has to be admitted and a full panel of test has to be done. This was hell!! She had to have a spinal tap, blood work and an i.v. They ended up sticking her 17 times to get the damn i.v in and the last time it blew her vein so they still had to give her 7 shots of antibiotics. This wasall done for percaution. I understand why they do this kind of thing, but, its cold and flu season........WHY??? What is the odds of it being something like that? I'm just aggrevated over this, 4 days in the hospital will do that to ya!

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

sounds like standard procedure to me, but that sucks. I hate being in the hospital for even 4 minutes...

[Phalanx]

Legally obligated to cover all bases, so you don't become one of the "they sent me home without checking everything, now someones dead" statistics.
Annoying procedure, but it covers both them, and the patient.

[Disease]

Procedure , procedure, is that all you call it Phalanx?

[ManchestrMorgue]

It is horrible to see small children go though medical tests - they are painful, and the child can't understand. Not pleasant.

However, meningococcal sepsis and other serious infections can go from looking like a standard viral infection to a fulminant disease in a very short period of time, and babies can't tell you symptoms, so without investigations it is often very difficult to diagonse until it is close to being too late.

As you say, only a very small percentage of children will have something "serious". But I would hate for it to be my child that was the "unlucky" one and have the diagnosis missed.

[Phalanx]

Procedure , procedure, is that all you call it Phalanx?
No...I also call is copredure, when I'm drunk?

[Disease]

because one term is just not enough!!!!!

[Roderick Usher]

I'm sorry, that sounds horrible. My heart really goes out to you.

I've been through a couple of yucky situations with my kids. I'd never take my little one to the ER unless the fever was waaaay high and sustained.

I feel that the most dangerous place in the world for an infant is the ER. The worst, most anti-biotic resistant strains of infections reside there - way worse than any cough or fever. But then again I'm anti-establishment to the core and distrust the medical/pharmaceutical industry.

[Dude Guadalupe]

Same shit happened with us when Ash had to go into the hospital. What he had before they started looked like muscle spasms, afterwards, it was full convulsions. He got the spinal tap too, and even a feeding tube "just in case" he wouldn't take a bottle. They didn't even try to feed him first.

[Phalanx]

Not to offend, but I guess they might've thought you'd have covered the feeding him part y'self?
Must be hard seeing them go through this crap...all hospital stuff sucks regardless of age, but, it's all in place for a reason, mainly to cover the patient in question, that, and, remember you do live in a country that has had some pretty ridiculous legal liability claims.
All the same, I still think regardless of what you/they have to go through, it's better that, than even the "small chance" they'll miss something that's gonna kill someone.

[Rayne]

Not to offend, but I guess they might've thought you'd have covered the feeding him part y'self?
Yeah, I was there the whole time, Dustin was there whenever he wasn't at work

What happened was, the baby was on stuff to stop the seizures, and it pretty much knocked him out...They said they would put in a feeding tube in case he couldn't take a bottle when he came out of it, because after that many hours he would need to eat right away...I told them NOT to give him a feeding tube, because I was confident that he would be able to take a bottle...So, while Dustin was at work, and I had left the room to call my mother and let her know about the spinal tap and everything, they did it anyway...When I came back in (like 15 minutes later), he had the feeding tube in and I asked them if they even TRIED to give him a bottle first...They said that they wanted it in "just in case", but I could try a bottle in a few minutes and then if he couldn't drink it, they would use the tube...I was pretty pissed off...Especially when they told me that he fought and ripped the damned thing out THREE times, before they ended up taping the whole side of his face to keep it in (all within about 15 minutes...Looks to me like they were just WAITING until I was out of the room, and did it as quick as they could so I couldn't object...As we had already had an 'issue' over the spinal tap, which ALSO turned out to be unnecessary)...

Seems to me if he was capable of fighting them, he would have no problem drinking a damned bottle...And when I had come back, he was asleep, so they must have worn him out...I held him as I removed the feeding tube, peeling off the tape very slowly and carefully without waking him up, so he wouldn't have to deal with it when he DID wake up (he had already been through ENOUGH bullshit)...and a few minutes later, when he woke up, I gave him a bottle...He drank it with absolutely no problem as I knew he would

I understand precaution...But for the sake of 'covering the bases' (protecting their asses), they CAN go too far......It's like boarding up your windows "IN CASE" there's a monsoon, when you live 50,000 miles inland

It was just a very bad time...They nearly kicked me out...I was protecting my baby...They were pissing me off


[email protected] know EXACTLY what it's like...and I feel for you very much

I hope that all is well now :)