no news all my records have had to go to committie..new hospital here a nightmare to deal with..not in crisis atm though count not great.more waiting..over it
sorry short headache this morning.. for all we need it
I'm home from work today after a terrible night. Let me tell you about it:
Night started out great. We went out shopping, then came home at 8pm and started watching a movie. Jazz went to bed at 8:15pm. At 9pm we heard her crying, went into her room to check on her and she was absolutely covered in sick.
So, I gave her a bath while Matt changed the sheets and put them in the washing machine.
Put her back to bed at 9:30 but she was unsettled so I stayed with her. She was sick again! Rang our doctor who does some evening work, got answering machine. He rang back at 9:50 and told us to come straight down (by this time she'd been sick 4 times). Got into the car to go to the doctor and she was sick a 5th time. Arrived at doctor about 10:10pm - she was sick again when we got out the car (that's 6 if you're keeping count). She was sick again in the doctor's office. He told us to take her to the hospital and gave us a note to give them. Got to the hospital about 10:45pm. Booked her in at triage, then on the way to the paed waiting room she was sick yet again. Then in the waiting room was sick another 3 times before 11:30pm when they started a trial of fluids which she didn't perform too well in at first. She had to have 15ml of hydrolite every 10mins. First dose she didn't keep down 5 mins after having it. 2nd dose came up after about 10mins, 3rd dose came up as well. This happened a few times and it was looking like she was going to be admitted so she could have IV fluids to rehydrate her.
By 2am she had started keeping the hydrolite down and continued to keep it down until 4:45am when we left the hospital. I'll also mention that between 9:30pm and about 2:30am she had not done a wee.
She seems fine now and has so far kept a bottle down.
My sister hasn't left. They leave on Thursday next week. They've found a house which looks great and they move into that on the 26th. We're having a farewell dinner for them on Sunday night.
We are going househunting later this afternoon, thinking about moving.
I checked my work email this morning (I can do that from home) and had an email from the child care centre saying even though they normally have a 2 week cancellation period, they are going to wave that and only charge us up to today. This would be because in the email I sent them I said the reason we were stopping is because it was becoming too much of a finacial burden for us!
Last edited by danniellabella; September 12th, 2008 at 10:38 AM.
They think maybe a bit of gastro. Thankfully she doesn't have the runs (I hope she doesn't get them either). Apart from tired she seems to be back to normal today and has kept down a bottle of formula. Doc said if she manages to keep things down we can return her to normal diet today but he said to get some hydrolite and give her a little now and then coz it rehydrates better than just water but we have to include water in her daily food/drink intake now coz 6 months is the age to introduce drinks other than just breastmilk/formula. I'd rather she just have water and I'm wanting to put off introducing fruit juice for as long as possible coz of all the sugar.
oh danni - what a scare!!! hope jazz is feeling better and having some rest too.
im not sure about fruit juice either, i've seen teh nutricia ones 'hint of juice' that say there's no added sugar...
im having a massive headache today.. managed to cook some comfort food and mop the kitchen. put poopy in his high chair while i did that, he was excited for a bit then got restless. he was chewing on his rusk and then threw it almost into the bin.. sigh.
Prama with abit of luck I wont go into hospital at all instead the cancer clinic up here will give the treatment as they did before. My heamo at RPA is great and very aware of country patients and does what he can to accommodate them.
No vomit or runny poo today thank goodness! We got a bottle of hydrolite to give her now and then as different fluid to milk or water. So tired now! We're about to go out and have a look at a couple of houses then I'm hoping to get at least an hour sleep before dinner.
Got some my first yoghurt when we went shopping today - its suitable for 6months+
The FDC lady gave us one of those little hand held things with the little mesh bag that you can put pieces of fruit and stuff in and babies suck and chew on them. She said to give it a go before we buy one ourselves but that she wants it back so that if Jazz likes it she can use it when Jazz is with her and we can have our own for at home. We got some apples to try in it. I don't know if we'll do anything today. I'm thinking about not giving any food at all today and just sticking with fluids even though the doc said it should be fine to return to normal. She seems a bit tired (not surprising) to be having anything else. Jazz slept for about 80mins while we were in the hospital and then we all slept for about 3.5 hours after we got home. She's in the middle of a cat nap now.
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