May 2006 Archive

It’s about 4pm on m birthday and we get a phone call from the pediatricians office and the nurse on call asked us to stay near the phone because the Doctor was going to be calling us regarding Kira’s apnea monitors they had downloaded…finally..you’d think after going through 3 machines in 5 weeks would mean to hurry the hell up and download them!!They wanted Kira to be admitted into the children’s hospital but they didn’t have any rooms available so we would have to wait in the ER..After waiting 7 hours and having a nice ER bill on top of her normal room bill is bullshit..they should have told us to come in when they had a room available so we didn’t have to drag all of us and entertain a 3 year old and expose 3 children to infectious kids…She would have been perfectly fine waiting home for a room. So we get to her room, its a shared room with another sick child who is in a lot of pain and is crying and his mom finally calms him to sleep. I’m whispering to the nurse, tip-toe through the room just to make sure I am not waking them up. I’m considerate of them, ya know..Well, her son wakes up and starts screaming for 45 minutes until a nurse comes in and asks the MORON mother if its ok to give her son Tylenol to help his pain..Why didn’t his mother help him instead of let him cry for so freaking long pissed me off. She also left her television on all night, and to top it off at 6am after I get a total of 1 hour and 45 minutes sleep, she gets on her damn cell phone and start conversating in Spanish in a normal speaking voice..HELLO, bitch!!! I’m trying to sleep over here you fucking twit!! I’m pissed off because I wanted to tell her to STFU but, of course she couldn’t understand me anyways.

Kira, the poor girl has a new diet..so she has to eat every 2 hours, now you can see why I didn’t get much sleep because of that inconsiderate buttbag next to us. The reason she was admitted was to monitor her and when and what’s causing so many episodes. She’s had a huge amount of apneas (not breathing up to 29 seconds at times) and bradycardias (low heart rates and hers have dropped as low as 40 bpm.) They mostly go off when she’s eating and she has common signs of reflux. They did an upper GI and she had to drink barium The results showed some fluid actually saturated the top of her lungs so Thursday they will do another type of barium test to see exactly where the fluids are going. They did an EKG and another test, both came out fine. Reflux can cause the apneas and bradycardia when the body stalls and tries to stop the reflux from happening they say. But, they still don’t have a definate answer..They have her taking Zantac twice a day for reflux and her diet is 2 oz of formula with 4 tsp. rice cereal to help thicken it (DO NOT feed your baby this diet unless told so by a physician). It’s helped a lot!! We feed her every 2 hours or sooner if she’s hungry. The thicker formula is heavy and is equivalent to 4 oz if you can understand. We haven’t had an alarm yet today so that’s awesome!!!

So, after staying in the hospital a second night..Alan stayed the second night, he came and picked me up and when we walked in the room and they had our television on and theirs was on…Ok, stay the fuck off our side of the room people….Don’t add another nuisance to my daughters stay. Don’t sit in the chairs that are on our side…OKAY!! Agg!! You have a TV..Just no respect at all! I wanted to say something but… some people can’t speak English, ya know! Frustrating. As you can see I got pretty pissed off. Kira came home yesterday afternoon, thankfully she doesn’t have to listen to those people all day while shes trying to sleep.

I have a lot to do around the house, cleaning, laundry, etc. Alan needs to get out in the yard and pull weeds, clean the pool, and trim the grass. Busy busy!!

Oh, before I forget..If you have taken CPR they have changed the amount of times you compress the chest. You breath 2 breathes then 30 chest compressions, not 5..so go retake your CPR. This is with infants, toddlers, and adults. I had to take a refresher course yesterday. Do you feel the stress?