The Nelson Family: ER Visitt

Saturday, January 14, 2012

ER Visitt

Late this evening, Kayden woke up and felt soo hot. We checked his temp and it was 104. We called our doc and with the symptoms we described he wanted us to take him to the ER. So I took him while Greg stayed here with a sleeping Deagan.

Surprisingly, we did not wait at all to be seen. I was so grateful for that. He was really scared of the whole experience though. There were so many people in and out of our room doing different things to him. Everyone was super nice, but they were all strangers. Poor thing cried through the whole thing. He had a throat culture , nose culture, and an xray to check for phenomia (sp?). None of those tests are really kid friendly.

He was so cute while we waited for the results though. He was asking about Deagan and Daddy and looking at pictures of them on my phone and telling me they were taking a nap. (In Kayden language of course that actually sounded like, "Deedan. Daddy. Nap".) He loves his family!

All tests came back negative. They diagnosed him with an upper respiratory infection; 2nd one this month! I am glad that he is "fine" but our copayment was $125 for this visit, and for that price it would have been nice to have been sent home with something to "fix" him. :). This is the 2nd time we have taken him to an urgent care/ER in the past month and both times we have paid out of the you know where just to be told there is nothing they can do. I guess unless someone is bleeding or obviously in some sort of emergency we will not be going to an ER/ urgent care any time soon again. But in that moment where your child seems really ill and just keeps getting worse, you don't really know what to do. I am just glad he will get better soon.

Our health has been bad it seems since we moved here and we have had a lot of unexpected health expenses lately. It's stressful. On the drive home from the ER I was definitely feeling overwhelmed about the price of our visit. I prayed though to help me see the big picture here and prayed that would be able to make it through another unexpected expense. I am holding onto my faith here that my prayer will be answered.

We are all home and Kayden is in bed, but I wanted to record our experience. I am hoping that by doing so, one day I will look back and see how far I have come and how much has changed.

I am praying that we will all get some rest now because we are all running on fumes here.

2 comments:

steph said...: Oh my gosh! Sorry to hear about all that! We hope Kayden is okay. Let us know if you need anything. We'll definitely make sure you guys get your date next week!; January 15, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Tom and Miriah said...: I'm so sorry to hear about your recent bout of bad luck with sickness. I always end up taking my kids in when they're sick, too. It's just so scary!
On a side note...I LOVE YOUR HAIR, MICHELLE!!! You look so sophisticated! And older. Older in a good way, not an old lady way :) You look fantastic.
Hope things get easier soon.; January 15, 2012 at 10:24 PM

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Kids do and say the darndest things...

I don't want to forget all the cute things that my children have said or will say, so check back often to see what the Nelson family has to say!

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Kayden: Do I still have my eyeballs or are they still at Grandma and Grandpa's house?

Me: I never knew they were there...

January 8, 2011

I was tired this afternoon, and I needed to nurse Kayden. I felt too tired to go pick up Kayden from where he was, so jokingly I asked Deagan if he would go change Kayden's diaper, nurse him, and then put him down for a nap.

He took it seriously, and said, "I have little boobies mommy! But do I have milk?"

Me: "No you don't have milk. I was just kidding."

Deagan: "But do I have water in my boobies?"

Needless to say, he did not follow through with what I said:)

January 6, 2009

*We went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight, and after the waitress brought us our breadsticks my son yelled after her, "Thank you lady!"

*My oldest loves to bring toys with him to bed. Tonight he had a couple of toy dinosaurs that he got for Christmas. The rule we have of bringing toys in bed is that the toys can't play, they have to sleep too. Tonight, he was having a hard time just letting his toys sleep, so I kept asking him to stop playing with the dinosaurs so he could go to sleep. He was getting really frustrated at me because of this and towards the end he started saying, "I am very mad at you!" It was so hard for me not to laugh at that.

January 4, 2009

He has done this for a while now, but whenever we are in the car he will ask, "Where are we going?" in a annoyed kind of voice. Later on he will ask really sadly, "Where did my house go?"

October 29, 2009

My oldest woke up really early this morning, and was whiny and impossible to please. At this point, I am dreading the day ahead and it is only 7 a.m. My oldest was sitting on his play table coloring and playing with his paint box (that was empty). He dropped the paint box, and began whining for me to pick it up. The conversation went something like this:

D: "Pick it up Mommy!"

Me: "It is right by you, you pick it up."

**Pause from Deagan**

D: "Michelle! Pick it up!"

I couldn't help but smile when he called me Michelle. Maybe this day will be better then I am expecting.

September 6, 2009

I think that wanting your privacy while going potty is a natural instinct that we are all born with and that develops over time. D is beginning to show signs that this privacy is a very important time when going to the bathroom. This afternoon I was making dinner and came in to the living room to check on him. As I walked into the room, he held out his hand and yelled, "No Mom! Go back!" I can always tell when he is done by him allowing me to stay in the same room with him.

August 30, 2009

D wants me to always watch what he is doing regardless of what it is. His new favorite thing to say is, "WATCH MOM!" over and over.

July 11, 2009

I was taking a bath, and locked D in the bathroom with me while I did so so I could keep an eye on him. During this process, D was very interested in his old nursing buddies (if you get my drift) and kept saying "Yummy!" "Yummy?" I asked him. "What did it taste like?" "HOT DOGS!" He replied!

July 8, 2009

D is a big help around the house. He puts things away when I ask him to, sometimes. He helps me fold the laundry, by that I mean he lays in the laundry. He is just a great help. One of his new things is to throw away his diapers after I am done changing him. After a diaper change this afternoon, he proceeded to pick up the diaper and head to the trash. His normal trash that he uses was out of reach, so I told him to go into the bathroom right off of the kitchen and to put the diaper in the trash right next to the toilet. I think all he heard from that was, "Put it in the....toilet." because that is where he put it. Like I said, very helpful! :)