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What's next? Mandy at ER......Baker Hunt classes screwed up...
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Friday, February 3, 2006
12:09:00 AM EST
Feeling Angry
I was at the Children's ER today for seven hours with Mandy. She has a kidney infection. She woke up with a fever close to 104. She is really sick. The damn Cincinnati Children's hospital ER was so bad this time I am writing an angry letter...the resident decided they did not want to give her the IV drug her pediatrician ordered by IV, so they gave it to her in her thighs--two huge injections--and she literally screamed for over an hour and a half. It hurt worse than the kidney infection! I have never felt like murdering anyone as much as I did today, not even that damn molesting "close friend of the family". My husband was furious...he said he knew that they did not want to take the time to put in an IV and that they never give this drug at Good Sam without hand mixing it with lidocaine for pain and giving a shot of morphine with it--she can hardly walk on top of the damn infection. I just called the pediatrician's again. Her fever is now 104, and she moans out loud in her sleep. I feel so helpless and angry. The resident felt really bad about it and kept apologizing but I assume she is sleeping well tonight while Mandy is still crying after three Tylenol with codeine and three Motrins. The resident said she thought we would want to go home faster, but as it was I think we were there longer. The whole thing was an outrage, with them dilly-dallying over an hour and a half about what pain medications to give her until I was about to do a Shirley McLain from "Terms of Endearment" and run screaming around the nurse's station. I went out there three times, and after the resident ordered Tylenol with codeine it still took 45 minutes to get it to her! Her damn urine sample sat on the desk in our room for fifty five minutes before they bothered to send it to the lab!!! We were there seven hours in what can only be described as a huge Fuck Up. Then Baker Hunt really screwed up the clay classes and Tabby, Tiffany and I think True were very upset, and Grayson's mom pulled him out, and I walked into a hornet's nest about that when I came home.... :::::beating head against wall::::: Anyway, I will try to take care of the Baker Hunt Foundation mess tomorrow. Dave, the man in charge, had told Karol when she called that it was a hand building clay class ONLY. Then when eleven kids showed up, they were only working on the pottery wheel! The kids were happy with that and with Ford, the teacher. There was one child too many for a wheel--and so today they told the twelve-and-unders they had to do a drawing class instead (drawing groundhogs???!!!!) instead of the pottery class we all paid for....I am pissed!!!!!!!! Oh, well, after having my daughter molested, cancer, the surgeries, the root canals, Shelby's surgery, the kittens both dying and now Mandy being so sick all since October---this Baker Hunt Foundation thing is relatively minor, I hope, and can be fixed. I am very angry that it was all done behind my back. Arrgghhhh.
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12:09:00 AM EST
Feeling Angry
What's next? Mandy at ER......Baker Hunt classes screwed up...
I was at the Children's ER today for seven hours with Mandy. She has a kidney infection. She woke up with a fever close to 104. She is really sick. The damn Cincinnati Children's hospital ER was so bad this time I am writing an angry letter...the resident decided they did not want to give her the IV drug her pediatrician ordered by IV, so they gave it to her in her thighs--two huge injections--and she literally screamed for over an hour and a half. It hurt worse than the kidney infection! I have never felt like murdering anyone as much as I did today, not even that damn molesting "close friend of the family". My husband was furious...he said he knew that they did not want to take the time to put in an IV and that they never give this drug at Good Sam without hand mixing it with lidocaine for pain and giving a shot of morphine with it--she can hardly walk on top of the damn infection. I just called the pediatrician's again. Her fever is now 104, and she moans out loud in her sleep. I feel so helpless and angry. The resident felt really bad about it and kept apologizing but I assume she is sleeping well tonight while Mandy is still crying after three Tylenol with codeine and three Motrins. The resident said she thought we would want to go home faster, but as it was I think we were there longer. The whole thing was an outrage, with them dilly-dallying over an hour and a half about what pain medications to give her until I was about to do a Shirley McLain from "Terms of Endearment" and run screaming around the nurse's station. I went out there three times, and after the resident ordered Tylenol with codeine it still took 45 minutes to get it to her! Her damn urine sample sat on the desk in our room for fifty five minutes before they bothered to send it to the lab!!! We were there seven hours in what can only be described as a huge Fuck Up. Then Baker Hunt really screwed up the clay classes and Tabby, Tiffany and I think True were very upset, and Grayson's mom pulled him out, and I walked into a hornet's nest about that when I came home.... :::::beating head against wall::::: Anyway, I will try to take care of the Baker Hunt Foundation mess tomorrow. Dave, the man in charge, had told Karol when she called that it was a hand building clay class ONLY. Then when eleven kids showed up, they were only working on the pottery wheel! The kids were happy with that and with Ford, the teacher. There was one child too many for a wheel--and so today they told the twelve-and-unders they had to do a drawing class instead (drawing groundhogs???!!!!) instead of the pottery class we all paid for....I am pissed!!!!!!!! Oh, well, after having my daughter molested, cancer, the surgeries, the root canals, Shelby's surgery, the kittens both dying and now Mandy being so sick all since October---this Baker Hunt Foundation thing is relatively minor, I hope, and can be fixed. I am very angry that it was all done behind my back. Arrgghhhh.
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wow~sending you lots of prayers and hugs! rose~
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Poor Mandy! What a stupid resident! Do people just not think of the comfort of the child??! Just want to rush them out and home. Where the parent has to deal with the aftermath!
Sorry that all seems to be so awful right now. Hope that everything will be getting better from here on out.
Traci -
Poor Mandy! I hope she is feeling better. I swear I keep hearing nothing but horror stories lately about Dr/hosp.... No wonder I haven't been to either in a long, long time. G. keeps saying I need to go for a checkup (and I know I should), but I'm just scared about finding a Dr... Give Mandy a big Hug!
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Poor Mandy. I wish there was something I could do or say that would make BOTH of you feel better. I can't even imagine how helpless I would feel if Jasmine got that sick. Poor girl. Hopefully, it'll all be over before she knows it. Try and have her sleep as much as possible, that'll help time seem to pass faster. I can't imagine it would be easy to sleep when you're in that much pain though. Sending lots of love and hugs, Jamie
2/5/06 12:14 AM