O.k. I was a little delirious on my last post; this has been a rough week so here is the rest of the story… Last night we went to our local Emergency room, where we were told by his Pediatrician to take him and let me tell you, if Baker is immune compromised I'm sure he picked up something there last night. We were only there for five minutes. We were told to go to the special pediatric waiting room and sign in – it was standing room only. It was a small room filled with sick children; we had trouble finding where to sign him in. It was late, Baker was asleep so we figured we would give him a few more hours to sleep it off and hopefully have a bowel movement. We went home and despaired about the state of pediatric emergency care in our area of Tampa. What if Baker had a real Emergency, is an Ambulance ride the answer?
Teresa gave him more baby laxative before I got up. Baker was still in bad shape this morning, and for some reason an idea popped in my head – take Baker to All Children's Hospital in St Pete. Yeah it's about an hour's drive from our house (30 minutes if we go fast) but anything has to be better then our local hospital. We got there and it was like night and day (literally and figuratively). We were in a clean waiting room, with only a couple people waiting and were checked into a bed within 20 minutes. The staff was incredible, and of course Baker made friends right away. Baker for the first time, showed us the difference between Projectile Vomiting and spitting up shortly after we got to the room. The doctor that saw him was specifically a pediatric doctor so we were sure that he's dealt with inguinal hernias before. The Doctor looked at us and told us this is going to hurt Baker and that he hates doing this. (I'm going to get gross so if you don't want to read a graphic description this skip to the next paragraph) He had to push the intestines back in, and Baker screamed.
Again we were traumatized, but it only lasted for a few minutes after the Doctor was done he got everything back where it was supposed to go. Baker calmed down. He had a massive bowel movement shortly afterward and then returned to his happy self. We had to get him to drink a few ounces of Pedialyte and keep it down before they would discharge us. If he couldn't do that they were going to put him on an IV to replenish any fluids he's lost with all the spitting up and vomiting. He took down a little and threw it back up. They gave him some medicine and then he took a nap woke up and took down about 6 ounces of Pedialyte and started laughing and playing and looking at everything and being the old Baker that we all dearly love. The Doc came back we told him he was normal and they discharged us. He should be good until Tuesday… JJJJJJJ We are almost through the woods yet again JJJJJJJ Oh yeah Teresa and I are thinking about relocating, we love All Children's Hospital the care was excellent and the place was clean plus they had all the latest technology (I know I'm a geek but still)…
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