Guest guest Posted January 29, 2000 Report Share Posted January 29, 2000 Hi all. Well I spent last night in the hospital with my son . We have been sick in our house with the flu. I have been in bed for most of the week. Our son got a fever of 102 Friday evening. He is 8 weeks old so I called the doctor. I somehow thought I was doing the right thing. Of course they sent us to the hospital to have a full work up on . He was suppose to be seen first, tested for a few common cold virus things like strep, the flu and so on. Check for the possibility of an ear infection then have the blood, spinal, and urine done. Well they thought taking me up to the ped floor and getting me out the E.R was the best thing for both him and I. It ened up being mistake #2. The first being not to trust this was just the flu. After sitting for 4 hours and only having one temp taken and not one look in his ear or throat. My very chubby and babbling and alert baby with a fever was admitted and I was handed bed linens. Why? I said " no he has not had any of his shot " when asked if he had. I suddenly became a bad parent or something. Not till 1am did they finally look in my sons ears or throat and this was as they were getting him ready for a spinal tap. I was so tired of the fighting for the past few hours with these people. After doing the full work up of test they took an xray while I went to get a drink of water. I thought they had to tell you everything they were going to do. They also told me I would have to stay 48hrs while the culture grew in the lab. Only after telling them my husband was sick and so was my older asmatic son was ill did they think they could allow me to go home. But first they would have to talk with our Ped. Our Ped comes in and I find out nothing that had happened that evening was suppose to happen and that several screw up after another fit together to from my horrible evening.But he tries to get me to stay the full 48 hours. I have decided to leave this ped practice and find a ped or a midwife or naturopath who is more accepting of my choice and has better communication skills. I feel like some of it was my fault but I had so little info on the effects of the flu on an eight week old infant and his high temp did scare me a bit. He is home safe and sleeping. But I feel awful for what he had to go threw. Well I hope this want to terrible off topic. I needed to vent. My husband is thinking of fileing a complaint on the hospital. I just want away from this doctor. Thanks for listening. ------------------------------------------------------------ DrakMail - Powered by BigMailBox.com - http://www.bigmailbox.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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