Friday, February 20, 2009

Long Night

How I hope and pray for a quiet, peaceful sleep tonight.
Last night as I was putting Miss to bed, she mentioned her back hurt, I inquired a little, but didn't think to much about it. A few hours later, she woke up crying, which is not normal for her.When I checked on her, she was complaining her back and stomach hurt.

She is one who does not complain about pain. Being sick never seems to slow her down, she actually seems to have more energy when she is sick.
Miss P had fallen back a sleep by the time I was done talking with the advice nurse.
From talking with the nurse, we packed her up and headed for the ER to make sure she didn't have a bladder or kidney infection.

Like always the ER seemed kind of busy, even at midnight. They were all really nice and even bumped her to the top of the list since there was a possible kidney infection. I was grateful for that, but felt sorry for those who were there before us.

I was impressed, they have upgraded the ER, and made a child area. The kids section of the ER has Drs and Nurses that actually know how to deal with scared kids, the rooms have pictures which children have painted, cloud plastic over the lights, and a tv which they play movies to calm the kids. It helped the situation a little better that her room had the new space dog movie which she has wanted to watch.

Long story short, almost two hours and a really blah movie later, we were being told she was fine, they didn't know why she had the pain, and we could go home.

We shall see if anything else comes from this, but for now it looks like she is fine and we shall all have a good sleep tonight.

3 comments:

Jessica

Well I am glad everything is okay. I hate making the decision to take the kids to the ER/InstaCare, most of the time it seems to "their fine, just some aches and pains, a virus, etc" but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Kim

I feel for you guys - having spent way too much time ourselves in the hospital in the last few months. It's terrible, but my first thought is "that's going to be expensive!"

Schmitt Family

It was a crazy night. Peyton is actually on State Insurance. A few years ago, it seemed like she was always at the Drs for regular check ups or some kind of sickness and it was getting way expensive, so we put her on State Insurance, and they cover everything.