Wow, glad the little guy is OK. I have to watch the Curmudgeonling carefully if she has a cold, from prior experience it can turn into pneumonia QUICK.
Wow, glad the little guy is OK. I have to watch the Curmudgeonling carefully if she has a cold, from prior experience it can turn into pneumonia QUICK.
My older son has a set of lungs that go from coughing to non-functional at the drop of a hat and we've spent quite a few nights listening to him breathe every hour.
I was thinking last night, at the peds office we saw the receptionist, the nurse, the doctor, and then the billing lady. Then at the hospital we saw the admissions lady, the first check in lady, the very nice girl at the emergency desk, the emergency paperwork lady, the triage doctor, the radiology tech, the nice lady in the back waiting room for emergency, the incredible nurse who got an IV in first shot in tiny veins on a scared little boy (I can't say enough about that guy), then a cool wheelchair girl, then an day nurse, then another wheelchair guy, then the MRI tech, then the night nurse, then the podiatrist, then the day nurse. I might have even forgotten a person or two. I can't help but think that there might be some room for streamlining in the process somewhere.
Yes, most processes can be streamlined somewhere, but OTOH multiple redundancy when people's lives are at stake has its good points too. I bet a lot of those people asked you the same questions or checked the same data. Probably some of it was "just the way we do it here," but some of it was double- and triple-checking, and if it's my kid (or my wife or me), I'm OK with that.
BTW, my line for getting my kids through needles was that they hurt a lot less than [getting a nail in your foot] but unfortunately you know it's going to happen, so you worry more. This didn't actually improve anything, as far as I recall, but at least I felt I was trying.
Glad your situation is working out well.
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