no rest for the wicked otter.
Thursday night saw a heated debate between Erin and myself re the relative sickness level of Dobhran and what to do about it. We ended up in ER because me being right isn’t as important as Dobh .
Here’s the account as I sent it back to the Twitter service ( Just because I make fun of it doesn’t mean I’m not trying to find something. I’m sure this should be a feature, rather than a standalone service, oh wait It already was, this is just easier to set up for people that don’t want to run fake, or real chron jobs on their wordpress installs. You can see the whole thing over here.
Hal : Back home finally , he’s sleeping, I shall try to follow suit.
Hal : Dobhie has a form of pneumonia .viral or bacterial ? Not known but it is not good either ways
Hal : Dobhie has a form of pneumonia .viral or bacterial ? Not known but it is not good either ways
Hal : Passed 3 a.m eternal and still waiting. Kid is happier but we are not. Need zzzzzz
Hal : X-ray over now it is time for nebulizer how much fun are you having @ 0230 ??
Hal : At ER with the little one he is far from frilled
Hal : Dobh has what looks like RSV, he’s not a happy bunny.
The hospital called back the next day to say it really is RSV and not pneumonia and he’s really making an OK recovery with some spots of crankiness. I still think the ER system in Phoenix is fundamentally broken , even though this wasn’t a busy night took forever and a day. More soon.
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Emergency rooms all over the nation seem to have some issues. Although we live in Oregon, we were vacationing in Florida just last week with our toddler. Indiana will be 2 years old in just a few weeks. He took a serious spill while we were away from home, resulting in what the doc called an acute head injury (which is a nice way to say huge bump on his head, no ill side effects). The story here is that the ER triage nurse fellow at Bartow Memorial Hospital didnt take any vital signs (no temp or weight or blood pressure nothing) but when the doc finally saw us, Indy had those numbers written in on his chart. the nurse MADE THEM UP and wrote them on my head injured toddlers chart. OMG, i flupped out and now that we are home i am phoning back and forth across the nation trying to find out what kind of sick twisted system allows a child who may actually be seriously hurt to be faked like that.
We had a period of 4 visits where Erin, Dobh’s mother , was misdiagnosed with a condition that had her in the operating room on the last visit after weeks more pain. Two hospitals, 3 docs and countless supporting staff missed it. Cool name, that spokes otter on the top of the site is called Indiana too. http://www.theottermanempire.com/images/otterjones2.jpg
As to how it can happen:) Easy you get private industry and then force them to provide “Government” services and it looks exactly like this:)
Thanks for dropping by.