1st. ER Trip: Being a Parent is A Scary Job || Mom Life

My kid is 2 years and 8 months and we had managed to stay away from the Emergency Room or any kind of room in a hospital, until last month, I posted on my main account what it was supposed to be a thank you note to Hive for allowing me to have enough funds to actually buy a tablet for my kid, but I ended up making a thank you post for allowing me to cover the medical needs of my kid on his first ER trip. You can read that post here.

Plain and simple, being a parent is scary,

The kid has had vomiting incidents before he can not eat pork at all it hits his stomach badly and makes him ill, but we have the 2 times that has happen we have managed to keep it under control with what the doctor prescribes for him, also the vomiting hasn’t last that long or happened so much in just one day. So, when this time I notice that what his doctor had prescribe to him wasn’t helping much I knew that I would have to make the fear first visit to the ER, you’ll see when a child as young as mine is vomiting and not keeping anything in him, they can get dehydrated really fast and this can complicate things a lot, that is why when by day 2 he continued vomiting we took him to the ER at first time in the morning we got to the Hospital at 7am.

If you see the pics from when we first arrive to the ER he was actually very active and playing with his brand new tablet, he didn’t looked sick at all, this is why we didn’t took him sooner, first we didn’t wanted to go to the hospital cause of COVID and second we live in Venezuela so, going to a hospital here can be a nightmare even if what you have is not serious.

The doctors didn’t do a in deep exam of him to be honest but as soon as I told them he had been vomiting since the day before they told me he needed to be hook to an IV immediately to prevent him from getting dehydrated, also it help pass along the medicines to help him with the vomiting through the vein and get them to work faster.

a 2yr old who behaves

I have to say I knew the moment we decided to take him to the hospital that they would put an iv on him, I knew this is the standard procedure for this type of cases and since my kid is only 2yrs old and 8months I was afraid he may be a difficult patient, I mean the kid doesn't let me give him his vitamins on a day to day basics there is a whole process that involves doing wrestling with him. So, this time around when the nurse told me you have to hold him and don’t let him move so I can get the iv on him OMG was scare to death not only I knew he was going to cry and that obviously broke my heart for him but to keep him from moving and not trying anything with his arm I though that was going to be difficult, but it wasn’t at all, he obviously cried a lot but he didn’t move I was there holding him during the whole process hugging him and talking to him, the nurse was surprise how he didn’t try to move at all and that was amazing.

For the next 6 hours he was hooked to the IV and didn’t even try once to remove the thing from his arm or didn’t even tried to touch it, he just lay there on his hospital bed being a good boy.

The fever

This was a day of more than one 1st, it was not only our first ER visit we also had our first high fever since he was born, it was so high that when it was starting, he begun getting blue so much so that I got scare he may be getting out of air or not breathing or something and the nurse had to put on the oximeter to check the oxygen level on his blood, once we knew his level were 100% the nurse told me oh this means a high fever is coming.

We had to start putting sucking wet cloths on him to try and cool him down, but this didn’t worked his fever reach an all time high of 40 degrees, a fever this high can cause seizures and brain damage so you can only guess how scare I was, this was as far as my motherhood journey goes the scarier I have ever been, my boyfriend had to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine we needed to put him to get his fever down, but even so the fever was not coming down fast enough so we had to bath him, during this I was thankful to have such a well behave and good patient kid, you would think he cried or try to fight the bath, I know when I have fever I don’t like to take showers or baths cause it makes me hurt, I don’t know if it was cause he really felt really bad but he was so calm when we took him to the sink where we bath him and the whole 30 minutes the bath lasted he just sit there letting his dad and I pour water over him.

Once this was over, the IV fluids were done and he didn’t vomit anymore so, we were allow to go home finally.

ER at home…

Once we got home the fever came back not as high but I was so scare, we gave him even more medicine to keep it down and bath him again, he slept for the rest of the day and night, he didn’t throw up anymore, but he didn’t seem like his usual self, he wasn’t active and he just slept and slept this was scary so his pediatrician came to do a house visit, she had been doing over the phone check ups but she needed to do a physical evaluation to know for sure, What he had.

We did lab work and after she did the full physical exam, she said it most had been a case of indigestion going bad or a stomach virus, either way this would pass with the medicine she prescribed for him, she told us the lack of energy and the reason he was so down sleeping all day was cause he was dehydrated even tho he had received fluids the day before, he was eating or drinking anything so he needed to get another IV to help him. I didn’t want to go back to the hospital, the place is not as bad as in other cities of my state to be honest but there isn’t any A/C or medicine and is far away from everything. So, since the boy godmother is a RN that works in the Red Cross and lives in the house next door the doctor told us she could put in the IV in the house and the godmother could keep an eye on him. This was on one hand a relief but still broke my heart to know I had to put through the whole getting the IV in to my kid.

As before he was a good patient and behave so good, this time around the doctor told us he had to keep the IV during at least 24hours to prevent him from getting dehydrated again, he got 2 whole bottles of fluids of 950cc each during that time.

Thankfully he didn’t throw up anymore or got a fever again, and by the next day when his IV was almost over going through, he was obviously the same kid he has always been, he didn’t wanted to stay in bed anymore so we had to improvise the IV stand on the living room with what we had on hand as you can see on the picture LOL.

Boobs for comfort

My kid is still breastfed on demand even tho he “eats” food, he still acts like a little leach with me and this time I wasn’t happier it was still the case, my boobs provided comfort for him and help him fed him even tho he didn’t actually want to eat anything, breastfeeding allow us to kept him strong enough to endure the whole thing and I highly recommend to any mom who has the ability to do it! It helps your kid and you in so many ways is marvelous.

The nightmare ends…

Once the fluids were done and his godmother took the IV out of him, the kid was back to normal as if nothing ever happened, happy as ever and being the little devil, he has always been.

I am so grateful for Hive as you can not imagine, while the whole thing was going on I was so stress out and so worry for my kid, yet I was not actually worry for the money this my cost us, I mean it was not a serious illness obviously and we didn’t actually had a expense of more than 100$ for the whole thing, but I had that money to cover it all thanks to Hive, to the rewards I had from my posting and this made my life that was a whole mess during this time a whole lot easier, it wouldn’t be possible for us to cover the cost with just my boyfriend income, so Hive as always comes to rescue and I'm grateful.

Anyways… I'm hoping since we have manage to stay out of the hospital for so long to keep it this way I don’t want to do the whole visit to the ER ever again.

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