Sunday, January 16, 2011

First trip to the ER

Title: First trip to the ER
We got to have a family night down at Children's ER yesterday (Saturday) evening. John is such a good nurse and dad and noticed a small yet real skin infection on Luca's leg on Friday (it looked a like a small hard pimple). John said, "I am going to take Luca in to get antibiotics for this so that it doesn't not turn into an abbess and need to be drained etc and go to the ER this weekend." He sees quite a few of these where he works) anyway, the Dr. said "no, it is just an in-grown hair and will go away on its own. Well by last evening (after Scarlett's big one year birthday party) the bump on this thigh had doubled in size and Luca had a fever of 101. 2. I called a friend that works in the ER at Children's and she told me there wasn't a long wait and let them know Luca was coming in. We had a great dr. who did an ultrasound on the bump and said that the bump had not become organized or collected fluid that needed to be drained but Luca did need to go on antibiotics right away to help the infection to go away. The whole thing took just under an hour (which is amazing) and it was truly to most positive ER experience we could have had. (It actually too less time and hassle than the dr. appointment on Friday that amounted to nothing). Anyway, we were home by 8 pm and Luca went right to bed and slept till 8:30 am this morning. I feel grateful once again for friends, children's hospital, and financial assistance at Children's. (even the antibiotics at their pharmacy is paid for. Truly amazing and God's provision for us and Luca)

3 comments:

  1. OK...so I'd like an ER trip like that! Actually, I can't complain, Bob's now the one that takes kids to the ER, nor have we had that many. Heidi.

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