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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 385406" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>In the meantime, as soon as you can, difficult child NEEDS to go to the local hospital. NOT NOT NOT for treatment. She NEEDS to go there with you for POSITIVE experiences. Otherwise if she gets hurt or breaks a bone it is going to be terribly difficult to get treatment for her. She is likely to catch a lot of viruses this year because she wasn't eating for so long. If you don't take her to the hospital for small positive experiences you will have a horrible time if she needs IV antibiotics or anything else. She won't want to do it. </p><p> </p><p>You can take her there to walk outside first. Then to go inside. Then to look in the gift shop, then another time to buy a little something at the gift shop. Then to have ice cream there. Call ahead and ask if someone at the hospital can explain TO HER how children are handled if they are admitted - can their parents stay with them the entire time, do they get TV, etc... Stuff that will help her if you need to take her to have anything there. </p><p> </p><p>Don't put it off too long. The flu could be devastating to her this year and she needs to know it won't be what she went through before. in my opinion that might be reassuring to her even when she knows she doesn't have to go there at any time in the near future. The topic of hospitals comes up once in a while, driving past them at least. She has a right to know that what these people did is NOT normal. Heck, the WORST they would likely do is to make you wear a paper gown, gloves and a mask if you were going to be in her room (I was in the hospital with a bad infection and everyone who came into my room had to put a gown on, gloves, and a mask because the types of bacteria I had - and I didn't even have MRSA!). I am willing to bet that if you called either a children's hospital or someone at the nearest hospital and explained what you needed that they would be very happy to help you. NO ONE wants a patient who is terrified, much less one who is terrified and resisting the way one of our difficult children can resist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 385406, member: 1233"] In the meantime, as soon as you can, difficult child NEEDS to go to the local hospital. NOT NOT NOT for treatment. She NEEDS to go there with you for POSITIVE experiences. Otherwise if she gets hurt or breaks a bone it is going to be terribly difficult to get treatment for her. She is likely to catch a lot of viruses this year because she wasn't eating for so long. If you don't take her to the hospital for small positive experiences you will have a horrible time if she needs IV antibiotics or anything else. She won't want to do it. You can take her there to walk outside first. Then to go inside. Then to look in the gift shop, then another time to buy a little something at the gift shop. Then to have ice cream there. Call ahead and ask if someone at the hospital can explain TO HER how children are handled if they are admitted - can their parents stay with them the entire time, do they get TV, etc... Stuff that will help her if you need to take her to have anything there. Don't put it off too long. The flu could be devastating to her this year and she needs to know it won't be what she went through before. in my opinion that might be reassuring to her even when she knows she doesn't have to go there at any time in the near future. The topic of hospitals comes up once in a while, driving past them at least. She has a right to know that what these people did is NOT normal. Heck, the WORST they would likely do is to make you wear a paper gown, gloves and a mask if you were going to be in her room (I was in the hospital with a bad infection and everyone who came into my room had to put a gown on, gloves, and a mask because the types of bacteria I had - and I didn't even have MRSA!). I am willing to bet that if you called either a children's hospital or someone at the nearest hospital and explained what you needed that they would be very happy to help you. NO ONE wants a patient who is terrified, much less one who is terrified and resisting the way one of our difficult children can resist. [/QUOTE]
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