Hospital-- July 23-27, 2012

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Dd has had her first (and hopefully ONLY) experience at the hospital--Diagnosed with severe dehydration, leukocytosis, and pneumonia.

 

After VBS we were wiped out---and I mean completely wiped out.  Sat. and Sun. Dd was really sick and not doing well.  Mon. she was so sick she wasn't moving much.  Mon. night she got worse; and we decided in the wee early morning to take her into the doc's office in the morning (it was such a horrible night that I won't go into the details).

Our doc was out for the day; but another doctor-- Doctor Johnson--saw her and said she needed to go to the ER immediately. She had a fever of 103.5 at the doc's office. I didn't know which hospital to go to; and needed to call Dh.  So, I said I would go home and call Dh.  She said I could use their phone!  I was so surprised she let us use her phone; I didn't think people let you use their phones anymore.  I missed our normal doc (Doctor Abell); but I was glad she sent us to the ER.

I called Dh and he said we needed to go to Hendricks Regional Hospital in Danville.   It took us hours of testing.  Dd was a real trooper with the needles and IV's.  I thought she would throw a fit; but she was so sick that it all went okay.  She would fall asleep between nurse visits and interactions.  We had a really loud nurse and she would always wake Dd up.

I think around 4pm we were moved into the pediatric section of the hospital.  We had a really good nurse named Ashley.  I have a lot of complaints about it; but I won't go into all that here.  The most important thing is that they got us the right medicine and got her on it quickly.  We had a long night.  The next day, I could see an immediate improvement with Dd.  We stayed the day and they re-did the blood work to make sure she was really better.  She was 26,000 on Tues and 14,000 on Wed which is a great improvement- I think that is was the white blood count numbers. 

We got in the van at 5pm and headed home. After 2 days in the hospital I was so ready to be home; and Dd was even more excited. Dh's parents drove down on Tue to see Dd and take care of our dog while I was at the hospital.  They stayed until Fri. to visit with Dd; they hadn't visited us in a few months.  

I am glad she is better.  Thanking the good Lord for her renewed health.