karo on Nostr: do you think the ER will give me a frequent visitor punch card? We went yesterday ...

do you think the ER will give me a frequent visitor punch card?

We went yesterday evening and was admitted into the hospital by midnight. I'm glad to know that my instincts were not wrong but it also sucks that we're here.

It is incredible how much medical technology and analysis was done in such a short time. Blood drawn and analyzed within an hour. CT scan done and results within an hour. Cerebral spinal fluid drawn and results within an hour. (They stuck a big needle into his spine! I stood aside while they started to prep. Doc said "are you gonna be okay watching?" to which I decided no, I will not be okay and went to wait in the hall and listened to him wail there.)

There's so much collective knowledge about human physiology, medicine and biology converging on one little 8 month old dude to figure out what's wrong and help him feel better.

Being in the PICU is heart wrenching but he's doing a lot better than yesterday and we've ruled out the major big bad ailments. That leaves us with big question marks on why he was in such poor condition. The upside is that he's getting better with his body is fighting whatever illness on his own.

What a champ.

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