uggghhhhh!!!
 

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!

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

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.

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

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.

No...I also call is copredure, when I'm drunk?

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

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.

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.

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.