Stella is home again! Yeah!
We were in the hospital for a longer than I had anticipated -- a whole week. We had gone to the emergency at the Children's hospital on the Monday after seeing our wonderful family doctor, Dr. Ramanna. Emerg sent us home ... with asthma medicine. Uh-huh. Two days later Stella was even worse -- she could only pant to breathe, was feverish, lethargic, refused to eat, had diarrhea, vomited after breastfeeding, unresponsive. She would just lay in my arms and cry -- actually, mew, because she didn't have enough strength to cry. We went back to see Dr. Ramanna, who sent us back to Emerg, where we vaulted from the Triage line-up straight into Ward 2. Dr. Ramanna, God bless her, even called us at home the next morning to follow up.
The Children's Hospital here in Calgary is brand-brand new, and has quite a buzz about the design. Apparently the design was a very collaborative process, involving lots of input from children, patients, parents, and staff. All I have to say (besides the fact that the morgue is on the 3rd floor and the Mental Health division is on the windowless "lower" floor!) is that the designer did not try out the lounge chair or trundle bed in the patient's rooms. Ow -- I really need a chiropractor. In fact, I think that my thermarest on the floor might have been as comfortable.
The nurses were amazing -- so upbeat, professional, empathic. I would have been an emotional mess had it not been for them. Francis love love loves the hospital ... because it has T.V. And Francis does love T.V.
Thank you, everyone, for your prayers. I truly think that it helped. Let's not take good health (and good Health Care!) for granted.
We were in the hospital for a longer than I had anticipated -- a whole week. We had gone to the emergency at the Children's hospital on the Monday after seeing our wonderful family doctor, Dr. Ramanna. Emerg sent us home ... with asthma medicine. Uh-huh. Two days later Stella was even worse -- she could only pant to breathe, was feverish, lethargic, refused to eat, had diarrhea, vomited after breastfeeding, unresponsive. She would just lay in my arms and cry -- actually, mew, because she didn't have enough strength to cry. We went back to see Dr. Ramanna, who sent us back to Emerg, where we vaulted from the Triage line-up straight into Ward 2. Dr. Ramanna, God bless her, even called us at home the next morning to follow up.
The Children's Hospital here in Calgary is brand-brand new, and has quite a buzz about the design. Apparently the design was a very collaborative process, involving lots of input from children, patients, parents, and staff. All I have to say (besides the fact that the morgue is on the 3rd floor and the Mental Health division is on the windowless "lower" floor!) is that the designer did not try out the lounge chair or trundle bed in the patient's rooms. Ow -- I really need a chiropractor. In fact, I think that my thermarest on the floor might have been as comfortable.
The nurses were amazing -- so upbeat, professional, empathic. I would have been an emotional mess had it not been for them. Francis love love loves the hospital ... because it has T.V. And Francis does love T.V.
Thank you, everyone, for your prayers. I truly think that it helped. Let's not take good health (and good Health Care!) for granted.
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