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Well, I was driving housemate O and baby J home from the ER at Children's Hospital. Why do you ask?
Not exactly what most people would want to be doing at 3 AM, but much better than worrying that housemate R was too sleepy to drive them home safely in the pouring rain himself, since he is not that great a driver when in the best of conditions.
Why the trip to the ER with the baby? Well, she stopped breathing for a little bit yesterday around 5 PM, which, of course, prompted a call to 911. Yes, very scary indeed. She did start breathing again with coaxing from her mom while her dad was still on the phone with 911, but was still listless. Watching panicked parents with ill children is... heart-wrenching, in case you were wondering.
Apparently what happened was her fever spiked to at around 104 and triggered a seizer, which is not all that uncommon. Unfortunately it means she is likely to have it happen again, and there is nothing that can be done since it happens when a fever spikes too fast to even track it. By 11:30 PM last night when I went to meet them at the ER, her fever was just under 103, so we were there for a while waiting for it to go down.
Eventually, after (medical TMI), and an IV of antibiotics, she was released at 3 AM. I drove us home by 3:30 and we all tried to get some sleep before the boys woke up in less than 4 hours. Housemate O promised to keep the boys quiet all morning so I could sleep in, and I offered to watch baby J when O took M to school then went to the pharmacy with T to get the medication for the baby.
This morning, at about 9 AM, I was handed a sleepy baby who, fortunately, was able to get back to sleep with me in my bed for another hour and a half. A few minutes ago I finished helping O dose her up with the infant antibiotics, which she will have to do twice a day for 10 days (ugh!).
So, yeah.... A far too eventful evening/morning if you ask me.
Not exactly what most people would want to be doing at 3 AM, but much better than worrying that housemate R was too sleepy to drive them home safely in the pouring rain himself, since he is not that great a driver when in the best of conditions.
Why the trip to the ER with the baby? Well, she stopped breathing for a little bit yesterday around 5 PM, which, of course, prompted a call to 911. Yes, very scary indeed. She did start breathing again with coaxing from her mom while her dad was still on the phone with 911, but was still listless. Watching panicked parents with ill children is... heart-wrenching, in case you were wondering.
Apparently what happened was her fever spiked to at around 104 and triggered a seizer, which is not all that uncommon. Unfortunately it means she is likely to have it happen again, and there is nothing that can be done since it happens when a fever spikes too fast to even track it. By 11:30 PM last night when I went to meet them at the ER, her fever was just under 103, so we were there for a while waiting for it to go down.
Eventually, after (medical TMI), and an IV of antibiotics, she was released at 3 AM. I drove us home by 3:30 and we all tried to get some sleep before the boys woke up in less than 4 hours. Housemate O promised to keep the boys quiet all morning so I could sleep in, and I offered to watch baby J when O took M to school then went to the pharmacy with T to get the medication for the baby.
This morning, at about 9 AM, I was handed a sleepy baby who, fortunately, was able to get back to sleep with me in my bed for another hour and a half. A few minutes ago I finished helping O dose her up with the infant antibiotics, which she will have to do twice a day for 10 days (ugh!).
So, yeah.... A far too eventful evening/morning if you ask me.
