Posted on 12/31/2010 3:21:22 PM PST by NoGrayZone
Believe it or not, if she survives, this kid is incredibly lucky to have kept one hand. Friend of mine went septic and they took both hands and feet. Life isn’t easy for a quadruple amputee.
You got that right.
Absolutely.
Man! That is scary! I always got pushy when it came to my children.
She was so tiny that it probably did. And I was wrong. She was 15 months old.
It can be very scary.
I started to post about the next door neighbor and then erased it. I’ll post it now.
The man wasn’t feeling well. Complained for a day. Went to bed to rest. After 18 or so hours he was rushed to the hospital. Meningitis. He died within 24 hours.
Both he and his wife were physicians. What can I tell you.
What I don't understand, though, is why people call themselves "engaged" when they have two kids together, a 6 yr. old and a 2 yr. old. That's such a farce. I don't understand why you just don't admit you're shacking up at that point.
Sometimes there is simply no way to know how serious an illness is.
Exactly. Theoretically, a triage nurse should evaluate people who walk into the emergency room, but there are walk-in ER rooms where there is no triage and there are just a few bored admitting clerks.
If you have a private physician, call him/her and say that you're going to or bringing your child to the emergency room. Sometimes a doctor will send or tell you to call an ambulance.
Otherwise, dial 911 and call an ambulance. It might cost you $500-$1000 dollars (if you're not on some kind of social services support or don't have insurance - if you do, it's usually free to you), but it's better than being dead. Personally, I'd say that unless you have a really good relationship with a doctor and he knows your situation well, when you get that uneasy feeling, just call 911 and go to the ER in an ambulance.
Where is this doctor practising, and what’s his full name?
I happen to be a fan of "House", but sadly, the reason that type of show is popular is because it rarely approaches reality.
Gurbir Saluja in Vernon, NJ. The last that I knew he is still in practice with his wife and now his son.
Oh goodness, that should be a thread all by itself!! As well as "In addition to Malyia, Jeffers and Yang are raising a son, Jaden, 6, and Yang's son Christian, 9."
They couldn't get bothered to get married when one already had a child, let alone after their 1st born?
I watch House on HuLu. I like it too but it is fiction.
Thanks!
You’re welcome.
MY FRIEND must tell the doctors what she can and cannot take. She was admitted into the same hospital a few times. My friend had to demand to see her mothers med list. Her mother was on 5 meds....the hospital still had her on all these old meds (that she did not respond very well to)...especially the cholesterol med.
They gave it to her anyway. Her mother was on coumadin so you would think they would take her blood for levels, but nooo.
MY friend never believed me that socialized medicine wants to kill the elderly. With all she has been through she finally said she thought I may be right. There was no other explanation for what these people have done to her mother, except intentionally.
You MUST advocate for your family members in the hospital. My daughter was in a horrible car accident on Memorial Day weekend of 2006, and I was in the hospital with her every day. She was hospitalized for about 3 months. She got terriffic care, but the nurses said it was because I advocated for her.
Her face hit the windshield or the passenger window and she had a lot of glass embedded in her face and scalp. They took it out while she was in ICU, but even after that, she had a large welt still on her cheekbone, which they said was scar tissue. It looked like glass was still in her face to me. They said it wasn't but even if it was, it would eventually work its way out. I insisted she see a plastic surgeon. It took all summer of me asking her attending physician for a referral, and they finally referred her to a reconstructive/plastic surgeon. She wasn't able to get in to see him until after she was discharged, but he took one look at her and said "Wow. You have a shard of glass under the skin". He said this while standing across the room. He also said it would never have worked its way out - it was too large. So, please, if you have family members in the hospital, advocate for them. Ask, ask, ask for the care you think they should have. Be a squeeky wheel.
could use your insight on this and some of the reply stories
I’ve been lectured by doctors who told me to stop rushing my asthmatic son into a doc-in-a-box for every high fever or severe respiratory infection. And parents may also have been concerned about the cost; if you’re a citizen and working poor, you’re at the back of the line for medical benefits and get billed.
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