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What is it with difficult child and hospitals?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 216365" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple">difficult child ended up in the hospital yesterday due to dehydration. This is just one more time of many times. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple">It's because she doesn't eat right (we have food in the house) and she doesn't drink enough water (plent of that too!). Her ketones were up and she was dehydrated, sugar levels were down - this has happened before and she knows better. It was just aggravating, especially before a holiday, that's all. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple">The hospital we were at was awful, unresponsive and her nurse was just plain rude at times. It was more than I could take at the time and it just pss'ed me off. They hooked her up to an IV for fluids which was fine, but after that they basically neglected her (and me) and left her sitting in the room, she was shivering she was so cold and she turned gray from lack of food. They kept promising crackers, but never came through. I was feeding her mints from my bag. I didn't even meet the ER DR until he came in to tell her she could go home after 4.5 hours. The monitor was binging and the IV bag had been empty over an hour by that point. We have some great hospitals nearer to our home, but this one is near her school so they took her there. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple">So, I lost a 1/2 day of work, H lost a 1/2 day of work and easy child had to cancel an appointment so she could go with H to pick up difficult child's car. And she missed work too! And all of it could have been prevented if difficult child would only eat at least ONE meal a day and drink something other than coffee. She knows this. I told her she's paying the $75 co-pay, not me and luckily they had her sign all the paperwork, so the bill should come in her name, not mine, which is awesome for a change!</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple">So, basically, that was my rant. After I wrote it...I later was looking at the rest of the this board and saw that my rant was nothing compared to many. At least she's not really sick and at least she's not inpatient far far away. Relatively speaking, life is good. So I deleted it. So, that's it.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 216365, member: 2211"] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=purple]difficult child ended up in the hospital yesterday due to dehydration. This is just one more time of many times. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=purple]It's because she doesn't eat right (we have food in the house) and she doesn't drink enough water (plent of that too!). Her ketones were up and she was dehydrated, sugar levels were down - this has happened before and she knows better. It was just aggravating, especially before a holiday, that's all. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=purple]The hospital we were at was awful, unresponsive and her nurse was just plain rude at times. It was more than I could take at the time and it just pss'ed me off. They hooked her up to an IV for fluids which was fine, but after that they basically neglected her (and me) and left her sitting in the room, she was shivering she was so cold and she turned gray from lack of food. They kept promising crackers, but never came through. I was feeding her mints from my bag. I didn't even meet the ER DR until he came in to tell her she could go home after 4.5 hours. The monitor was binging and the IV bag had been empty over an hour by that point. We have some great hospitals nearer to our home, but this one is near her school so they took her there. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=purple]So, I lost a 1/2 day of work, H lost a 1/2 day of work and easy child had to cancel an appointment so she could go with H to pick up difficult child's car. And she missed work too! And all of it could have been prevented if difficult child would only eat at least ONE meal a day and drink something other than coffee. She knows this. I told her she's paying the $75 co-pay, not me and luckily they had her sign all the paperwork, so the bill should come in her name, not mine, which is awesome for a change![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=purple]So, basically, that was my rant. After I wrote it...I later was looking at the rest of the this board and saw that my rant was nothing compared to many. At least she's not really sick and at least she's not inpatient far far away. Relatively speaking, life is good. So I deleted it. So, that's it.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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