Children update
Mar. 12th, 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamHave lurched from emotion to emotion over the weekend. First got the tentative diagnosis and then was sent in to hospital as a matter of urgency on Saturday.
Except that it turned out that it wasn't an emergency. We were just there to fast track us into getting an MRI. Apparently there is a 5-6 month queue for MRIs for children as an outpatient and a few days once checked in.
Except that after waiting from Saturday til Monday at the hospital they decided that Ruby isn't getting the MRI after all, at least not for another 2 months. So we literally waited at the hospital for three days (taking up beds that could have been used by someone else) before being sent home still with no answers.
I'm taking away from this that there isn't any real urgency after all.
Ruby did have a blood test and I talked to a dietician about ways to get more fats into her diet and they tried and failed to get a urine sample. I will have to get one but not tomorrow because I have to go to work. Maybe Wednesday.
So, the range of emotions has covered terror, sorrow, irritation with the doctors, anger with the doctors (when one *stood on Ruby*), boredom, relief that my child looks so good in comparison with some of the really sick ones, worry and confusion.
Now I am going to bed.
Edited to add: Also, the emotions of anxiety about Pearl who is freaking out, sorrow when Ruby had procedures, happiness that at least she has a family to be with her unlike the poor 15 month old in the cot next to us. Basically every emotion.
Edited to add: Except maybe patriotism.
Lust.
Excitement.
Except that it turned out that it wasn't an emergency. We were just there to fast track us into getting an MRI. Apparently there is a 5-6 month queue for MRIs for children as an outpatient and a few days once checked in.
Except that after waiting from Saturday til Monday at the hospital they decided that Ruby isn't getting the MRI after all, at least not for another 2 months. So we literally waited at the hospital for three days (taking up beds that could have been used by someone else) before being sent home still with no answers.
I'm taking away from this that there isn't any real urgency after all.
Ruby did have a blood test and I talked to a dietician about ways to get more fats into her diet and they tried and failed to get a urine sample. I will have to get one but not tomorrow because I have to go to work. Maybe Wednesday.
So, the range of emotions has covered terror, sorrow, irritation with the doctors, anger with the doctors (when one *stood on Ruby*), boredom, relief that my child looks so good in comparison with some of the really sick ones, worry and confusion.
Now I am going to bed.
Edited to add: Also, the emotions of anxiety about Pearl who is freaking out, sorrow when Ruby had procedures, happiness that at least she has a family to be with her unlike the poor 15 month old in the cot next to us. Basically every emotion.
Edited to add: Except maybe patriotism.
Lust.
Excitement.
