I'm writing this from the ED(Emergency Department) at Southern NH Med Center. Tyler has been congested for a few days and it came to a head today. He has been getting more fussy by the hour, sleeping and eating less. Today Sharron called the pediatrician and they told us to come in and get him checked out.
We have been here for about an hour and have already been through triage, where we caught the nurse off guard with an acronym that she didn't know. (PIE =Pulmonary Interstitial Emphysema).
Tyler's abridged history takes about 10 minutes and most of that time is the poor triage nurse typing. Then a new set of chest X-rays, where we were asked if we were professional X-ray techs.
We can't forget all the nurses who came running to see him. Apparently nurses can smell a cute baby from about 20'. We expect someone to come draw labs and most likely see how he does with a nebulizer treatment.
We're hoping it is not Pneumonia or RSV (this is where you knock on a nearby wood product). Either one would very likely put us back in the inpatient column. It's pretty clear that he is congested but overall his numbers aren't that bad. Hopefully we'll have some answers soon.
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That is lousy. The ER is no fun even when your kid is in their system. Nice work with the acronyms. The acronyms give you a full toolbox to make you one of them.
Have you thought about loading Tyler's relevant info onto a thumb drive? I know that there is a company that will do it for you but I bet with some help from Dartmouth you could DYI and then have a lot of reference info for the new docs to use.
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