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Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2006 - 1:28 p.m. Our First Parental Medical Emergency
I have said it over and over again, am
well aware of it, and do NOT take it for granted that Tarik and I are very VERY
lucky with regard to our child and his health and happiness. Having said
that, yesterday, we had our first major health emergency that required a trip to
the emergency room, then a transfer to Memorial Hermann Children's' Hospital in
the med center. I shuffled Travis off to his grandmother's
for the day yesterday so that I could get some much needed chores and projects
done without distraction. At approximately 2:00 in the afternoon, g-ma
calls to say that Travis has gotten into her diabetes testing and meds kit, and
got it open. When she took it from him, she noticed he was sitting on some
pills. Well, she checked his mouth to see if perhaps he had swallowed any
and saw nothing in his mouth to indicate that he had, meaning bits of the pills
or white residue from the pill coating. However, she went ahead and called
poison control to ask them about the toxicity of the pills (glucocimide or
glucosimine, I can't remember which) he may or may not have ingested, and they
told us to get to the closest ER as soon as possible, as those pills could kill
him. For a diabetic, they lower blood sugar, but gradually, in a baby,
they can cause a sudden crash in blood sugar and coma. She brought him
back here, picked me up, and we took him to the ER. He was acting
perfectly fine, and being himself. But, poison control said that is what
he WOULD be doing until the meds took effect. They instructed us to give
him some sugar in the interim. At the ER, he was placed on this board
that had extremely large velcro straps that basically enveloped him to keep him
restrained so he could be worked on. He looked like a little mummy.
One arm was free, and in this arm they inserted an IV line which was to be used
to take blood from him periodically. I lost it seeing him wrapped up in
this contraption. It was horrible. And of course when they stuck the
IV into him he screamed and cried, but only for a moment, and then he was
OK. He was so, so good. Just as they were finishing this up, another
urgent emergency came in and we were shuffled off into another room where he was
supposed to be given some chocolate milk with activated charcoal. One hour
later he was administered this. I was perturbed that there was a seeming
lack of personnel in the ER to prepare this concoction at the time. Here
we have a baby who has potential poisoning, and we were just basically abandoned
by the staff for an hour. Eventually they did give it to him, I felt too
late to have done any good should it have been needed, and it was NOT something
he enjoyed. The chocolate milk was black from the charcoal and made his
teeth look black. It was messy. We were told that he would need to be
observed for at least 12 hours so we were going to be transferred to Memorial
Hermann Children's Hospital for the night. The ambulance picked us up
around 7:30 pm. We went straight up to the room, got settled, and then
about an hour or so later the resident came in to take a look. They had
apparently talked to poison control right before coming in to see us, and were
told that if Travis had not shown any signs or his blood sugar had never dropped
below normal levels by this time, then he was fine, and he was comfortable
sending us home. He, however, wanted to run it by his boss first before
giving final word. His boss said since it was almost 10:00 pm by this time
and since we were already there, we should go ahead and stay the night.
They took the IV line out of Travis' arm, and he was none the worse for it. I don't know WHAT got into him, but he was
up til midnight and I was about to pull my hair out because I needed to get some
sleep, and had also gone something like 10 or 11 hours between meals. G-ma
was with us and then my sister in law showed up later and brought him a balloon,
which he LOVES. It was NOT a good nights' sleep for mommy as he was
playing with this new toy for a few hours. He finally managed to go
sleepies, but then of course they would come in during the night and check his
vitals. I didn't like being in a children's
hospital. Even though I knew Travis was fine, there were many, many
children there who were not, and that made me extremely sad. We
were discharged this morning. Suffice it to say, it looks as though he did
not take a single one of those pills, but it was scary none-the-less. I AM
a tad perturbed at my Mother in Law that she left the diabetes kit where Travis
could get to it. In addition to the pills there are also sharp pointy
pokey things that I don't want him getting into as well. Hopefully now she
will keep a better eye on it. And again, I am counting our blessings that
all is well, and that we are so very lucky. Song
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