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Children and being sick…

April 3rd, 2007

Friday began like any other Friday…. Get up get the kids off to school, all of the usual things. Little did I know that Roy would come home from school sick. It started with diarrhea at about 3pm. Then by 9pm it had graduated to vomiting. All through the night, he could never really get comfortable and the going from both ends continued. Finally, at 6:30, we became more concerned. He had the shakes and couldn’t stand up steadily. His eyes were sunken. He was dehydrated! We decided to call the doctor, but I wasn’t familiar with the Doctor on-call, so I thought it wasn’t too early to call my neighbour, Maria, who is also an M.D. (she didn’t answer!)

Then, we decided we needed to call his doctor at home! She’s a friend, and I am loathe to take advantage of that friendship. But, my son was sick and getting sicker by the minute, so I called her, and woke her…. ( I owe her lunch! :-) )

She told us to give him another suppository to stop his nausea, and if it didn’t stop it to take him to the Pediatric E.R. After 30 minutes we still had the diarrhea and nausea. We got ready to go to hospital. Roy was triaged and and taken to a room in the ER, where he was receiving treatment within a short time of our arrival. He was given IV fluids and eventually antibiotics as they also did a throat swab which indicated that he had Strep.

We left the ER by midday and were on our way home after a couple of intermediary stops, on of which was the pharmacy. Then it was home, where we tried to keep Roy as comfortable as possible, but his temp started going up. We decided to let it work for a while. Your body runs a fever for a reason, usually to cook out whatever bug is going after you!

We kept him home from school on Monday and Tuesday… and it looks like it may be Wednesday as well!

Wish us luck, until later,

Marian

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