reasons you brought a child to ER

Thanks for the encouragement! He's 9 now and they have spaced out, thank-God! We do think they could be related to his head injury. Like there is an issue with his internal thermometer, LOL. He has some other ongoing issues as a result of his head injury, that the 2 years of therapy couldn't correct. He now gets migraines also.

But, there always a chance that he's just like your daughter.He was never sick at the time. BUT, he rarely runs a normal fever they are always high. Did you ever see any specialist about them? I've always wondered what could cause such crazy high temps. People, including family, think I don't react enough to a high fever. It's just so commonplace now. I'd never attempt a bath before hitting 105 or it drives it higher. I always give motrin first then follow up with tylenol 3 hrs later. Typically that doesn't work and we end up putting him in the bath. If I took him in every time he had a high fever we would have our own room by now. It eased my mind greatly when the pedi told me that it takes temp of 108 for a period of time to do any brain damage. They should tell parents that when they have children!

 

One day I was babysitting and we weren't paying attention to the situation and it seemed to us like out of nowhere Lily turned ghostly white and almost passed out. She was limp on the floor. My DH rushed her to the ER and it cost us $100 to find out she was fine.

The next time Amelia stubbed her toe and Lily saw the blood, she did it again. Now we know Lily panics and even if she leaves the room she almost passes out at the sight of blood.

 

We've only ever been to the ER once. When Gracie was about 20 months old she climbed on a stool to wash her hands in the bathroom, and fell backwards onto the tile floor. She passed out momentarily, which I later learned was because she was holding in a cry so long she didn't take a breathe. But at the time it happened it scared me so bad that I called an ambulance! Now I know to blow in their face, which works to make them take a breathe. She was fine, BTW.

I have taken them to urgent care on numerous occasions, mainly because they seem to get a high fever on Saturday night or Sunday when the pedi is not open. The last time I was at the pedi's though they told me there is normally someone there on Sunday morning before they go to the hospital for rounds and you can usually get to see someone on Sunday morning. So now maybe we can avoid the urgent care too.

Lily recently cut her chin on some playground equipment at school, but I called the pedi before going to the ER and they said to come in to see if glue would fix it. They were able to glue it, but they don't do stitches so had she needed stitches we would have had to go to the ER.

 

Tad age 2 broke his collar bone
Tad age 3 severe dehydration admitted for 3 days
Tad age 4 broke his arm
Tad age 6 broken arm

Jared 20 days old pulse ox 76 he turned blue admitted for 2 weeks
Jared 13 months - flu nearly took him admitted 2 weeks
Jared 2 pneumonia admitted
Jared 3 - stitches in head
Jared 3 pneumonia admitted
Jared 4 pneumonia admitted - another close call
Jared 5 pneumonia admitted
Jared 6 pneumonia admitted
Jared age 6 9 stitches in foot stepped on coke can
Jared 8 3 pins in left elbow
Jared 10 viral infection fever 106.5 admitted for another 2 weeks had to re learn to walk

Dawson age 2 stitches in forehead
Dawson age 3 stitches in head
Dawson age 5 broken arm
Dawson age 9 broken fingers
Dawson age 12 badly messed up knee

 

Bridget- when she was 2 broke her leg (we took her 10 days after it happened because we had NO idea)
Bridget age 4 for a jingle bell stuck up her nose, would NOT come out.
Bridget- age 5 broke her arm (ambulance ride)
Bridget age 6 broken elbow and needed surgery

Faith once for infection in finger spreading to hand.

Garrett once for maybe broken hand (turned out to be sprained.


We only go when it is needed...cost is not a factor with military insurance, however the waiting is.

Brandy

 

Oh and we took Ava when she was a year old for an allergic reaction to an ant bite.

 

Twice both times with DS:

Once when he was 1 year and 3 months for a respiratory infection: We went first to the pediatrician's office and she sent him to the ER for chest xrays. He was in the hospital for a week with RSV.


Once when he was 2: For what we thought was ingestion of DH's medicine :bad: . We called poison control but because we did not know if he actually swallowed them or how many, we had to go to the ER. We found the pills only after he was kept overnight for observation.

 

Wow, you win!!! Glad they're all still alive!

 

We are very fortunate to have "After Hours" Care here so that goes til 9 pm and the kids are always asleep by then so they can't get hurt

1. Nic broke his foot
2. Gabe choked on a piece of water noodle while swimming at YMCA and had to be given Heimlich and then revived. He was taken by ambulance to ER. He had strep that we didn't know about (cuz culture came out neg 2 days earlier..) and this probably contributed to the choking.

That's it!

I've only ever been there once and I was 4 yrs old and was horsing around and cut my foot open on a mirror edge. 11 stitches.

KNOCKING ON ALL WOOD IN HOUSE OVER HERE!

 

I HAVE THIS DISORDER! It never goes away. My mom and dad used to get me tested for epilepsy everytime it happened! Little did we know.. it was me seeing blood! Still happens, to this day!! It's hard to live with!

 

Our ER trips have been-
Sophia at 6months old was stuggling to breath and it ended up being croup.
Reese at 2.5 stomach virus acting weak and lathargic and she was dehydrated.
Ryder at 2 stomach virus acting weak and lathargic and he was dehydrated.
Ryder at 3 cut his pinky finger and we went in and he fell asleep while we waited and we checked the bandage and it had stopped so we left.
Sophia at 5yo was taken to the emergency room by ambulance and admitted to the ICU because of low oxygen levels from asthma. We were at the pedi's office when they realized her oxygen was too low.

We do visit the walk-in emergency care places after hours for ear aches and sore throats quite often.

 

The girls both went at 3 weeks for trouble breathing, blue lips, etc...they had RSV and were at the Children's hospital for a week and then on inhalers for months.

Dannik got a stick in his eye when he was 2.5 and scratched his cornea...that one got an ER trip.

Amélie got stung by a wasp this summer (18 months old) on her neck and lip. Her face/mouth/neck started to swell so that got an ambulance ride to the ER.

 

John- Concussion at age 5, many visits for strains, sprains and breaks from sports, stitches at age 9 from a kitchen knife.

Erin- no ER visits but kidney surgery to correct reflux at age 5.

Allie- ER visit and admitted at 6 weeks: RSV. 5 months ER visit and admitted: RSV. Many ER visits for breathing treatments, low pulse ox. Stitches at age 3 between the eyes when Ashley threw a bucket at her. ER visit this summer: huge infection in her upper leg.

Ashley: ER visit and admitted at 5 months : RSV, ER visit and admiited at age 5 for pneumonia, ER visit at age 6 for stitches between the toes.

Our Urgent Care usually doesn't even have a pediatrician there so I prefer Children's ER. I am weird about that, if it is for one of my kids then I want a "kid doctor". I always call our pediatrician after hours line, though, to get his/her advice before going to the ER unless it is a breathing issue or something very serious, then we just go.

 

:smilie_xmas_116: Sorry. I couldn't help it.

 

The early years with my boys was pretty rough. ESP with Jared. RSV is the devil and set him up for a lifetime of breathing troubles. jared also has a condition called mastocytosis which just made matters worse. Tad had weak bones as a young child and Dawson is just a rough boy. I am so thankful for all of their lives and
Hope and pray we have been through the worst of the sicknesses and injuries that we will have to go through. I spent years on edge and dreading the receptionist at work telling me I had a phone call. I don't know how I even worked when they were little.

 

All times, if urgent care is open we have gone there first:
Lauren - urgent care because she fell and broke her wrist
Matthew - e.r., I forget what it was called but he got poked in the eye with a pencil
Jacob - urgent care because he dropped a hammer on his head, urgent care because he broke his foot, urgent care because he split his eyebrow open and had to have it sealed with Dermabond
Nicholas - urgent care because a brick fell on his head, e.r. because we thought he broke his foot

 

Noone ever goes to the ER for fun I don't think. We've never lived anywhere that had urgent care and no drs around here have extended hours, so we've been plenty of times, probably 20, but all for stitches or broken bones only.
We NEVER go to the dr. Only one of my kids has ever had antibiotics. . .

 

:faint: Yikes, Heather!!! Hopefully Easton won't follow suit!

 

I hope and pray he won't.

 

We don't have an urgent care here so the ER is the only choice when the Dr's offices aren't open.

Jack age 2 - fractured wrist
Jack age 3 - severe dehydration

Zack age 2 - 105.5 fever

Kaitlyn 5 months - admitted for the flu stayed 4 days
Kaitlyn 3 - hit her head on the black top, had x-rays

 

Zoe went just shy of one year when she pulled a hot cup of coffee on her. Then a few months later Allison had to go because she sliced her finger open on a piece of tile in the living room that was being replaced and had to get 4 stitches. Zoe went back not long after for severe dehydration.

Knock on wood the only other times was when Zoe said she had stomach pain (I was convinced it was her appendix but she only had to poop :tease: ). And once when Allison was really sick.

 

The best part was on the way to the ER I had her shake her head to the Jingle Bells song. LOL It would still jingle..just not come out, well until we sat down in the waiting room and she sneezed. It fell out in her hand, we got up and left. Great story though..


Brandy