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Originally Posted by navillusc  OMG!!! What a nightmare for you! Horrible that a diagnosis took so long for such a sick child!
My son was at home when he quit breathing the first time. An LPN in our bldg resusitate him but he was blue and stiff by then. The ambulance went to the wrong apt. first, but finally found us and I rode with him to the hospital. This happened after the det truck had detonated the fire extinguisher bomb in the dumpster in front of our building and all the officials had left, so more flashing lights on the street. The second time, he was in his car seat in the back seat of our car outside the guard house at a military post in Germany....but 2 hours prior he was playing happily fever free at a friend's house at brunch. The same MP's and medical staff came out as had 2 weeks before when he quit breathing the first time. I carried therm strips and fever reducer in my pocketbook until after he graduated college...LOL
My oldest was in OR once a year the first 4 years of his life...open heart surgery when he was 3...he was born with 2 holes in his heart. His daughter had the hold in her heart repaired when she was 4. |
It was years ago before many of today's wonderful diagnostic tools that could have at least ruled out the brain/cord diseases faster and likely w/o the spinal tap, etc.
How terrible that your boys had such terrible close calls! A very ill child is as bad as it gets for a mom, isn't it? No fear like that fear. I'm so glad they and your grandchild are okay! I totally get your carrying therm strips/fever reducer for so long!!! Mom's of children who've made it through very bad illnesses/injuries have much fear to try to get past and much to be grateful for don't we? God bless.