Well to celebrate Valentine's Day and our 6th wedding anniversary Kate and I took our daughter on a date to two emergency rooms. Last night at dinner Reese got a very funny look on her face like she was dizzy and about to puke. Then she tells us that her head hurts (which she's never done before) and starts acting funny. And being the good parents that we are we rush her over to the Cooks Children's urgent care that's about 3 minutes from our apartment. We fill out the book of forms to check in and after sitting in the waiting room for 15 minutes Reese's dinner shoots out of her mouth and onto the floor. Now I forgot to mention that earlier in the day she had fallen off of our overstuffed chair in the living room and hit the back of her head (this info will be important in a second).
After seeing her undigested macaroni and having a family clean up session in the bathroom, Reese's head seems to stop hurting. But again we as concerned parents decide to stay and have her checked out by a doctor. So they check her and three of the symptoms of a concussion are change in disposition, vomiting and fever. Of course Reese is batting 1,000 on this and we recall that she hit her head earlier in the day. But she maybe fell 12 inches onto carpet. Well long story short (too late) the doc at the first place scares the crap out of us and says that they need to send our daughter downtown because head injuries can go downhill quick. They have to send an ambulance (that takes 40 minutes to get there), I have to follow behind it in the car, they give Reese an IV, hook her up to a heart rate monitor, she gets a CT scan, the hospital tells my mom that we're coming on Care Flight, on and on it goes.
When it was all said and done we discover that she has some sort of stomach virus that's going around and there is absolutely no head injury of any kind. Reese gets a teddy bear from her ride with the Teddy Bear team (that's what they call the Cooks transports), she gets a rainbow popsicle at midnight, and a new shirt to wear home because her other one contains the remnants of her dinner.
All of this story to say that it was a hectic, stressful night. But we are so thankful that our little girl is ok and we're interested to see how much the teddy bear and popsicle cost. :)
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Poor baby girl, and mom and dad. I'm sure that was very scary! I spent some time with David the other day when he hooked me up with my new iphone.....finally made the switch!! :)
Love to see you guys and that belly of yours!
So glad little Reese is alright! I know how scary that is. I slipped at the mall while holding Anna Kate when she was about 9 months old and she hit her head when we fell. It was SCARY. Nothing worse than thinking something wrong with you baby!
Poor Reesie!!! Glad she is ok now! I recognized the purple hospital gown from when Hannah had her surgery at Cooks.
I'm glad it was not her little head!
omgosh how scary! so glad she is ok, isn't that exactly how it happens...coincidentally something happens shortly after a fall or maybe inhaling juuuuust a little bathwater....but the 2 things ( thankfully) don't turn out to be related! btw happy late anniversary? love ya'll!
freak out! Cook Childrens staff is awesome! In our many many appointments with them they have been terriffic. I am glad reese is okay. I cannot imagine what you were going through.
I clicked over here for the first time in SO long and this is the update I read!! I'm so sorry for that scary night!! BUT so thankful that everything is okay, also (well, minus the stomach virus - those arn't a walk in the park). That's a rollercoaster of a celebration to say the least.
Oh my goodness what a terrible evening. Glad Reese is ok. Ugh when we had stairs I remember taking Elijah in after he fell the whole flight and amazingly enough everything was fine. Kids are resilient!
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