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Why My Daughter was in the hospital
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Monday, 30 April 2007
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A few people have asked what happened to my daughter, why she was in the hospital. Let me start with the fact that this was almost 2 years ago. Now she is fine and you would never know she had been so sick. She was in the hospital for a week.
Here is the story
Thursday morning she woke up and was was complaining her leg hurt. She was limping around a little. We gave her some Motrin. It was my day to take the older children (we had a group) to science class and Ainsley was to go to a friends for a pre-school co-op. She wanted to go, so I took her.
During the class I went ahead and called my Dr. Then my girlfriend called saying that Ainsley was running a slight fever and really didn't want to play or do anything. Then the nurse called back and asked some questions. We talked for a while. She was going to see if she could get a pain med for her. Well, the Dr. didn't think Ainsley should have a pain med because she already had the Motrin, and if that didn't help he really needed to see her.
So as soon as the children were done with their science class I rushed them all home (to my gfs) grabbed Ainsley and headed for the Dr. He wouldn't be able to see her till 11:30, so that wasn't a problem.
By the time we got there she really wasn't feeling well, and I had to carry her in.My Dr. really didn't have many ideas as to what would be causing so much pain. He set me up with an appointment that afternoon at 3:30 with a pediatric orthopedic specialist and prescriptions to get x-rays and blood drawn.
At 12:30 we had the blood drawn. At 1:30 we had the x-rays. We grabbed some lunch and then headed over to the Orthopedic Specialist. By this time Ainsley was really sick. She was on fire with fever and couldn't even bare to be touched.
The Dr. looked at her, looked at the tests and knew that she probably had a ceptic hip. A bacteria had entered her body and had settled in her hip joint. Solution......surgery.
At 5:30 we checked into the hospital, at 6:30 they wheeled her in to surgery. I called my gf (who still had my older 2 to let her know what was happening).
At around 7:30 the Dr. came out and told me that he had been correct and that her whole hip joint was filled with pus.
Ainsley and I went to her room and Phil went to get the other children.
The pictures you see of her in the yellow gown were when she came out of surgery and then when the other two first came to see her.
Well, she had an IV in her foot (on the other side). And everything seemed fine. She was going to go home probably on Sunday. Friday was ok, she was still sore and they were pumping tons of killer antibiotics into her thru her IV. Well, then Saturday she started to complain that her other leg hurt (the one with the IV). More sonograms to see if there was fluid, more blood tests. Our Dr. had another covering for him for the weekend as he was going to be out of town. The new Dr. thought maybe Ainsely had and infection in the other hip as well. Back down to surgery, this time tho they didn't open her hip...just stuck a huge needle in to see if there was anything in there. There wasn't. But of course she had to be put under in order for them to do this. So now she has to go thru all the things they make you do after surgery, eat, poop, etc. So we won't be going home Monday.
We spend the rest of the day wheeling her around in a wagon (you can see the pictures...all decked out with pillows and stuff...her wearing a crown).
That night she is still complaining about her leg. Turns out the IV went bad (little 3 yo veins) and her leg was swelling with fluid. By the morning I was a mess cause she had been crying all night and no one could do anything. She was on narcotics and they weren't even working.
In the morning the nurse found what was going on and removed the IV. they put another in her arm.
Monday morning came and my Pediatrician had called in an Infection Specialist. The guy and I so did not get along...another huge story there......
Well, after the arm IV went that night...I refused to allow her to have another until I spoke with my Dr. Of course then they are talking about me refusing medical services, that I am being a horrible mother....Finally my Orthopedist came in and said it was fine to take her off and that we would do orals.
Finally after 2 more days we were released. I had been in the hospital the entire 7 days with her. I never left the building. It was a very scary, emotionally draining time.
We got home at 2:30. I had been gone since 8:30 the previous Thursday morning.
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Wow Nancy, that would be so scarey. I would go nuts. I'm glad it was a few years back and she is better now. It makes for a better viewing the pages knowing what happened.
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30-Apr-2007 @ 10:45:54pm
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OMG! that is so scary, I am so glad that she is better!!
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1-May-2007 @ 8:12:35am
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Wow Nancy! How terrified you must've been! I am so glad she's ok!!!
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1-May-2007 @ 10:28:47am
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What a terrible experience! She looks like she was being very brave in those pics. I'm so glad everything turned out ok.
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1-May-2007 @ 4:59:45pm
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Wow! What an ordeal. I'm glad to hear that you thought about everything as it was going along and questioned them every step of the way. That must have been so scary for you and your family. I'm glad Ainsley is okay!! :)
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2-May-2007 @ 5:17:52pm
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Your story hits home for me.My daughter at the age of 1 1/2 Has a little cold the day after Christmas. But the next day she could not walk and was burning up. she was shaken and would not stay awake . To make a long story short. The doc said come to see him he thought she was fine sent her to hospital for test. test came back o.k told me to take her home and give fluids . 1 mile from the hospital Christina suffered a serziure and died. After wreaking in a ditch ripping her from her car seat and running down the road like a crazy person I put her on the ground and did CPR. She came back to us thank the dear Lord. Back to the hospital by ambulance this time. Thousands of test later she had a infection from mold spores. Today Christina suffers from brain damage. Come to find out she was seziueing all day and they missed it. She is alive and doing wonderful 10 years later but now is 3 year behind in all she does. I know as a mother of three now that was the most scariest day of my life. May god bless your daughter with health now and may you never suffer that pain again. I am so blessed that Christina is alive today I never overlook anything she achives now,
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5-May-2007 @ 3:02:57pm
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OMGosh Nancy! I'm so thankful that Ainslee is okay. That had to be terrifying! Thanks for sharing your heartfelt story. HUGS!
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11-May-2007 @ 9:44:43am
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wow what a scary situation i can imagine how she felt with the iv swelling, my iv swelled in my hand when i had my galbladder removed and it was SOOOO painful so i can imagine what a whole leg would feel like, glad to hear she is doing better! Did they say what caused it? Just curious i have a 5 month old son and i am curious about everything!
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19-May-2007 @ 12:23:50pm
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so glad everything turned out and sorry it had been so terrible. we're going through the fever and just all over aching right now with noah. thankfully at least so far it is nothing more than a viral infection.
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19-May-2007 @ 5:33:38pm
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OH my Gosh! Nightmare. I would have been a basket case. I'd like to think this could never happen to a kid, but I guess it really does....sometimes life just sucks!
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8-Jun-2007 @ 8:19:17pm
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That does sound frightening. I would be worried sick too. My son had inguinal hernia surgery when he was 4 months and I was holding onto my chair so tight the whole time that my hands were pure white. When they said I could see him, you could see the wind rush behind me I was so quick to run in there. And then seeing him groggy but ok, the waterworks started (me) and it took me an hour to calm down. I have threatened him with his life that he can't ever get a life threatening illness or injury (or I'll kill him LOL). YOu know what I mean. His mom can't take the stress. Actually then I had my daughter and she was very accident prone - she was my monkey so I got used to worrying and being scared and now I do all right. But still a serious injury or accident might put me back where I was emotionally with my son 14 yrs ago now that I've invested 14 yrs of love, worry and time into this child.
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10-Sep-2007 @ 9:59:54pm
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