Graceyergency Room visit #2
Posted Aug 12th 2007by Ebenezer
Last night.
7pm. Carter is tucked in for the night, or so we thought.
8:30pm Carter is crying and fussing quite a bit so we go in there and comfort him, talk about his “scawy dweam” and leave him to go back to sleep.
8:45pm Carter is screaming and crying again so I lay down with him and he just can’t get comfortable. Finally seems to settle so I leave again.
9pm Carter is using his blood-curtling scream voice and it finally dawns on me to ask if anything hurts. He says his ear hurts so we give him a double dose of Benadryl and some ibuprofen and ear drops. He dozes off again.
10pm Carter is screaming again. Daddyo sets up the trundle bed and goes to sleep in there with him, he finally settles back down.
10:30, I hear Carter crying again but he settles back down pretty quick.
11:30pm and now daddyo is getting frustrated with the crying and screaming and is fussing at Carter to lay down and be quiet. I’m laying in bed fuming because Carter is hurting and obviously fussing at him isn’t going to make him feel any better.
12am, Carter is fussing again and screaming and daddyo is fussing and I can’t take it anymore. I go get Carter and take him into the den and we snuggle into the big rocking chair and he still can’t settle down so I turn a movie on and he starts watching and forgets about his ear.
12:30am, Carter starts to doze off again but turns his head on the achy ear and screams. I take him back to daddyo and dig around to find matching pajamas. (why it was important to me for him to have cute and matching pjs in the middle of the night I have no idea.)
1am, I load Carter in the van and take him to the ER. I figure if we’re going to be up all night anyway, we may as well be in the ER so we can go ahead and start on an antibiotic.
1:45am, wonderful ER doctor looks at Carter’s ears and confirms infection but says it really doesn’t look that terrible. Gives pain meds and antibiotics. Nurse comes in and gives Carter the meds and tells him beforehand that it doesn’t taste very good and asks if he can be tough and drink it anyway. Carter downs the medicine like it is liquid sugar and thoroughly impresses the nurse. She gives him a lolly pop and tells him he’s as tough as Spiderman and he grins from ear to ear.
2:15am we drop the prescriptions off at pharmacy and run back to the house because I forgot my wallet.
2:45am meds are ready and I give Carter the first dose and we drive for about 20 minutes, hoping that he’ll fall asleep as the pain meds start to kick in.
3:00am I call the pharmacist and ask her to double check the dosage because it seems way too much. She confirms it isn’t right and calls back with the right amount a few minutes later.
3:15am I carry an awake Carter to bed and tuck him in.
3:30am I crash.
7am Carter starts to wake up and daddyo goes in there as Carter is shouting, “IT’S WAKE UP TIME! LOOK AT THE CLOCK! LOOK! IT’S AT THE RED SPOT ITS TIME TO WAKE UP!” (i made a clock for his room so he can tell when it is okay to get out of bed in the morning)
9am I get out of bed and send daddyo and Gracey off to church.
I count the minutes until nap time.
Thank you God for wonderful ER doctors and nurses and for wonderful medicine.
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Oh yes, those ER folks are certainly a blessing at 1 a.m., aren’t they?
And, why is it that kids can’t get sick during the morning or daytime? Travis came down with pneumonia (its been years) at midnight…couldn’t have been during regular office hours, could it? Hee hee!