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| Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| the pediatric ward experience |
The past few days were NOT fun!
update on US visa status: approved and I had gotten my passport back
I had to bring Alyssa along to Vancouver because she started having fever on wednesday afternoon and refuse to eat ever since.
Fever comes and go until Saturday which was when we brought her in to see a doc and we were told to send her to the emergency.
A little history on the emergency : they let you in by priority and if your case is not that severe, u might wait for hours and hours.
But thank god we got in right away, we got a bed at around 1pm. After lots of nurses came in to diagnose her, blood work, X-ray - they came to the conclusion - lung infection, the pediatrician decided that she needs to be admitted to the ward for further observation, later of the night her breathing started getting worse, she was really bobbing her body and head to breathe, so they decided to hook the oxygen tube to help her. Finally at 1.30AM there was a bed in the pediatric ward for her and she was in the isolated ward.
All nurses, doctors came were in mask, robe and gloves. I felt butt naked in there with nothing for 3 nights 4 days. (Of coz I caught the virus too)
overall, it was rough for all of us, esp poor baby had tubes all over her and she's just too tiny to be in this condition. I had to feed her the nebulizer for 10 mins every 4 hours to open her lung to help her breathe better, that was the toughest thing to do, i feel like i was feeding my daughter poisonous gas! she was struggling, kicking and looking at me screaming! poor baby... Thank god, We left the hospital yesterday, she is so happy and singing in the car on the way back!
good effect on this, darling is trying to quit smoking, today is his day 5 without ciggies!! and Happy birthday darling!!
Day 1 at the emergency room
Day 3 - Alyssa is better and does not need the oxygen tube anymore - watching her fav cartoon channel.
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