My Baby Girl
Every time I’m sick with congestion in my lungs I always start claiming to have something much worse than a chest cold. You know, mesothelioma or the Swine Flu! I’m happy to report that I have neither, but you can still feel sorry for me–I do!
My daughter was in the E.R. yesterday. She has been sick the last several days as well, and Friday night started complaining about severe pain in her right ear. Now you all know how it is in the E.R. in the middle of the night. It takes forever. So I promised her that if she was still in pain when we woke up, that I would take her to the doctor. Well—guess what! Saturday morning she woke up–and the pain was gone. Miracle of miracles, right? Wrong!! Turns out–the intense pressure of her ear infection caused her ear drum to rupture during the night. Thus relieving the pressure and the pain. Problem is—her entire right side of her head was caked in dried blood. Now bleeding from the ears…that’s just plain scary.
So we took her in, they put her on Zithromax and sent me home. In her discharge papers (generic) it says to bring her to the E.R. again if her fever spikes, or if she is dizzy or vomiting or if there is discharge from her ear…blood or pus. So this morning I wake up to another dried blood caked ear. But do the “discharge from the ear” instructions still apply to me–since I took her in with discharge–and it’s the same? Or is this considered new discharge and she needed to go in? Yeah—I’ve no idea either!
So I watched her. Her fever remained gone with no medication. She wasn’t lethargic, and her ear didn’t bleed again the entire day. So I didn’t take her back. Now…..if there is blood caked on her face tomorrow morning…she’s going in first thing!