A Delay in Our Regular Programming...
Weeeeee! I just spent the ENTIRE weekend in the hospital with one of the twins. All of my kids have contracted RSV, but O's oxygen level was so low that he had to go under an oxygen tent all weekend. I felt so bad for him, and I was so worried about him, that I hopped into the crib and under the tent with him, and snuggled and played all day. The nurses thought I was nuts. Staff that had nothing to do with my son kept dropping in to see the Neurotic Mom in the Tent. What's the big deal??? He was scared, I was worried, the crib was 4 1/2 feet long and could support my weight, and his O2 sat level was 100% with me in there, so why WOULDN'T I go in with him??? Anyway, he's home now, and doing well.
Strange that I felt for no good reason that I should get him in for an ear check on Friday. The nurse walked into the room, heard the Rice Krispies in O's chest, got an O2 saturation level immediately, and off to the emergency room we went. Mother's intuition strikes again.
I feel like after 3 1/2 years of faking it, I've finally been initiated as a mom. Of course, I would have felt the same way if I'd been asked to join a carpool, but the scary, dramatic route is okay, too. Not really. Truly, I was feeling a bit sorry for the two of us until I noticed that the Pediatric Neurosurgery step-down unit was down the hall. Talk about coming back down to reality. I'll take RSV over having to stay with my baby in one of those rooms anyday.
Funny posts to resume later...once I get some sleep and work the kinks out of my back from the "cot" provided for me next to the crib.....
Weeeeee! I just spent the ENTIRE weekend in the hospital with one of the twins. All of my kids have contracted RSV, but O's oxygen level was so low that he had to go under an oxygen tent all weekend. I felt so bad for him, and I was so worried about him, that I hopped into the crib and under the tent with him, and snuggled and played all day. The nurses thought I was nuts. Staff that had nothing to do with my son kept dropping in to see the Neurotic Mom in the Tent. What's the big deal??? He was scared, I was worried, the crib was 4 1/2 feet long and could support my weight, and his O2 sat level was 100% with me in there, so why WOULDN'T I go in with him??? Anyway, he's home now, and doing well.
Strange that I felt for no good reason that I should get him in for an ear check on Friday. The nurse walked into the room, heard the Rice Krispies in O's chest, got an O2 saturation level immediately, and off to the emergency room we went. Mother's intuition strikes again.
I feel like after 3 1/2 years of faking it, I've finally been initiated as a mom. Of course, I would have felt the same way if I'd been asked to join a carpool, but the scary, dramatic route is okay, too. Not really. Truly, I was feeling a bit sorry for the two of us until I noticed that the Pediatric Neurosurgery step-down unit was down the hall. Talk about coming back down to reality. I'll take RSV over having to stay with my baby in one of those rooms anyday.
Funny posts to resume later...once I get some sleep and work the kinks out of my back from the "cot" provided for me next to the crib.....
posted by The June Cleaver Diaries at 7:17 PM
8 Comments:
I LOVE that you stayed with your baby - you are a GOOD mother, June :-)
and the curiosity of the nurses doesn't reflect well on them :-(
Glad to hear he is home and doing well.
cq
I have to admit I'm surprised that the doctors and nurses thought you wouldn't get under the hood with your baby. I'd be camped out there, too, without hesitation.
Hope everyone's healthy soon -- RSV is yucky stuff.
Like I said last night--I would have done the same thing. O is old enough to know that he shouldn't be in there. He was scared and wanted his Mommy. You probably made it a million times less scary for him.
You rock, Mama June!
I actually fear the please-join-our-carpool initiation more than the hospital, maybe because Henry was in the NICU for the first ten days of his life, so I feel like I've got that down.
But it's probably just that I'm scared of the carpool mommies.
Hope you and O get some peaceful rest at home.
I am so glad he is okay. RSV scares the crap out of me. I cried when my kids got it.
I had one mom take her kid to daycare with RSV, the day after he was diagnosed and she came in to do breathing treatments on her breaks...I thought I was gonna rip her head off and the daycare as well. Sure enough, my son contracted it about 10 days later.
Holy cow, Ditsy Chick!!!! I can't believe the daycare staff even let him in the building!!!!
Wordgirl--- I'll be sure to check that post, Ms. McClaine.
Susan-- I used to work in the NICU and the ICU--- I've even had people code on me (not as a result of the OT I just gave, of course). You'd think I'd be able to handle a little RSV like a pro.....
Tulip and CQ--- I know! I'm surprised that more parents don't do that. Do they just let their kids cry????
Hausfrau----if you're reading this again (probably not)check your blog for a question I keep meaning to ask you ove rthe phone, BUT KEEP FORGETTING!!!
Oh how scary. I guess my question is, if you didn't get in there with him, how were they going to keep him in there? You did good and I'm sure the oxygen treatment was good for your complexion.
Isn't mother's intuition amazing? I had this totally over-the-top reaction to something the surgeons wanted to do to my son during our recent hospital stay--nothing major or even terribly invasive, compared to the other things he's had done to him, but it just felt WRONG to me. I kicked up a fuss, but went ahead and agreed to it when it looked like there wasn't another option. Lo and behold, when they went in to do the procedure, it turned out that the problem it was supposed to correct didn't exist, and they didn't have to do it after all. I'm certain it was mother's intuition, but I'm new to all this parenting stuff. :-)
Glad you're home now... RSV is scary stuff.
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