still learning....faith and trust

hang with me this may be a long one

don’t let this sweet, funny, spunky little cutie in this video fool you.  this dude has been down and out for the better part of going on almost two weeks.  he has had on thing or another that he just can’t seem to shake.  our most current ailments include have included rev, flu, and newly diagnosed asthma along with two other bacteria roaming around this studs body.  not sure which came first the chicken or the egg but either way my man cub has been pretty sick.

last week we figured all this out just in time to be put on some meds right before christmas when everything closes, because what would be the fun of having all this while everything stayed open right?  no biggie i thought.  i see this stuff all the time and i totally know my pediatrician is up to date on all that is going on.  only thing was i didn’t anticipate how the whole asthma would play into the sickness.

things 4 started grunting and was having a small amount of trouble catching his breath on and off last thursday night and stopped taking in all fluids (food had long time since gone away).  i gave him back to back breathing treatments and treatments through the night and he seemed better.

the following day he refused all fluids of any kind and the grunting was back and slightly worse at times.  so baby g and headed to one of our local children’s ER not to far away for help with what to do about the breathing and fluids maybe.

this truly is where the story begins you could have skipped all that stuff up there.  we got to the ER and waited our hour and a half process to get our room, which honestly i thought wasn’t that bad for the wait times i am seeing in ERs right now.  (our local {small town} hospital had a wait time of 6 hours Friday just to get in a room).  once back in the room i was treated like an idiot from the nurse first but mainly the ER physician.

waiting room fun

-----we recently this past summer switched pecs offices from a very large office to a much smaller office-----

a few things first.  i am normally a very good read of people from the first time i meet them.  call it intuition or whatever you want but it’s a gift.  it’s the reason i felt lead to leave our old peds office.  we had our favorite dr and she moved and i tried many of the almost 20 other drs and just couldn’t shake the feeling it wasn’t right for us to be there anymore.  it’s also how i new at the new office i new it would be a perfect fit from the very first time i walked in the building.

okay i digress, back to the subject at hand.  no lie y’all the ER physician (which i admit it’s hard not to put them in a god-like figure when your baby is sick as a dog) told me the following things:

1.  i was wrong about who my pediatrician was because she (ER dr) knew them personally and knew she had left an old practice so i couldn’t be correct with the name i gave

2.  again i was incorrect due to the fact that the second providers name i gave was at the old peds office and the ER dr “knew” that these two people didn’t get along and that’s why the first dr left the original practice

 ** i probably at this point should have realized that said ER physician was a loser but when your kid is sick i think you overlook a lot and logic goes straight out the window**

3.  i did tell the ER dr we had been diagnosed with a number of things including RSV.  she took this to mean her job was done and NEVER fully checked my child out.  she listened to his back for less than 30 seconds and that was it.  never listened to the front, didn’t check his ears, nose, throat, nothing else!!

4.  told me me drs office gave me misinformation when diagnosing him in the first place.  she went on to say that the “test” they did couldn’t be done and that my drs office had no way of even testing for about half of the things they told me they tested for.

y’all i wish i could say that was it but i’d be lying.

5.  she asked who the on call dr was at the office and when i told her there wasn’t one she insisted there had to be and demanded that i call the office right then and there on speaker phone so she could “talk to them and educate them on this stuff”

6.  told me that what i brought me kid in for (difficulty breathing and fluids) was all just a part of having RSV and she wasn’t going to do anything because there wasn’t anything to do.

+++++while i do understand it is viral his is slightly different with the asthma and grunting paired with it.

7.  she even went so far as to tell me to stop everything my dr had told me to do.  she said stop breathing treatments “because it will make the RSV worse” she said and stop the antibiotics “because there’s no way they could have even test him for that” she also said.

after over an hour of trying to get him to take fluids he broke down and ate a popsicle

i was discharged from the er and left feeling like i must have made the wrong decision bringing him in and that i had over reacted.

this morning we followed up with our amazing pediatricians office and guess what....while he is mildly better i think mainly because the flu is gone or on the way out and we were ably to get fluids in him........he was wheezing just as bad and still grunting


so from now on i will have faith and trust that i now my child better than an ER physician who thinks i’m crazy.  i will lean on the fact that i am at the exact pediatric office where God wants me, with incredible drs that are extremely talented and absolutely love my kids.  it’s amazing the peace i have been given when talking to and seeking the help of wise council in the office i have found.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart.."
                         Proverbs 3:5