Sunday, August 8, 2010

New Toy



I spent 3 1/2 hours in the ER with Kai last night, but you'd never know it now. He took a pretty nasty fall and hit his head on the corner of a table-like toy at Patty and Mikes. He seemed to recover quickly, though the welt on hi forehead was HUGE and PURPLE. Yesterday morning he woke up and the welt had subsided and we were relieved; until he started vomiting. Vomiting like the Exorcist vomiting. I was at work, but when I got home I got to see the carnage. Because he didn't have a fever or any other signs of illness except general fussiness, I called the nurse at our clinic. She was confident that I should take him into the ER. Jon and I were both gunshy, not wanting to be those parents who freak out at every little thing, but like I said Exorcist vomiting. Once we got to the ER he seemed to improve in spirit and he was eating crackers...by the time we saw the doc 3 hours later he seemed totally fine. They were going to do a scan, but since we live 5 minutes from the hospital, the dr. and the supervising dr. agreed that if he vomited even once more to come back immediately for a CT scan and to check on him during the night. I did. Several times. Obsessively. He's totally fine. But now he has diarrhea. Ugh.

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  1. Poor guy! Hope he gets better soon.

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  2. What is infuriating to me is the wait time people have at the ER - which is "the doctor's office" for uninsureds. (Can you blame them?) Adding insult to injury, the ER copay for insureds is like $500. Note for future ref: get the mobile number of your doctor and his/her closest nurse assistant. Srsly.

    I hope you have an uneventful, restful night!!

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  3. He's doing well now, Kate! Allison, we did call the nurse line at our Dr. and they told us to go in. The ER Doc said that we did the right thing, too, because vomiting can mean concussion. We have a high deductible plan, but we already hit our 2750.00 for the year!!!! Health insurance sucks.

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  4. Ah - sounds like it was a best case scenario under the circumstances. I sure home ObamaCare helps the cost and wait times in ERs, though.

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