Roo Illness.
Feb. 7th, 2005 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Roo has been since early Sunday morning.
First it was loose poop, and the rest of us were feeling unwell, so I cancelled on Mrissa and we spent the day schlepping around.
We had a Great Hair Debacle (I'm still picking tufts of hair out of the damndest places, thanks to our little Roo... and I don't want to know how it got in the Corn Pops box.).
He seemed to be feeling better, from about 2 until 4 yesterday afternoon.
Then more diarrhea. Then the fever.
Then the tachypnea.
I'm taking the next 2 days off work and taking him to the physician today. Because dammit, fever and tachypnea, while they likely go together...
...mutter. I have to do this without storming in and demanding a chest x-ray.
This is hard.
First it was loose poop, and the rest of us were feeling unwell, so I cancelled on Mrissa and we spent the day schlepping around.
We had a Great Hair Debacle (I'm still picking tufts of hair out of the damndest places, thanks to our little Roo... and I don't want to know how it got in the Corn Pops box.).
He seemed to be feeling better, from about 2 until 4 yesterday afternoon.
Then more diarrhea. Then the fever.
Then the tachypnea.
I'm taking the next 2 days off work and taking him to the physician today. Because dammit, fever and tachypnea, while they likely go together...
...mutter. I have to do this without storming in and demanding a chest x-ray.
This is hard.
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Date: 2005-02-07 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-07 04:47 pm (UTC)Actually, we do. *I* do, anyway, but as a resident, taking care of a fully licensed and out-there-doing-the-dirty-work pediatrician's kid is truly intimidating.
And there's a whole 'nother layer of complexity to taking care of another resident's kid.
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-07 04:58 pm (UTC)What's trachypnea?
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:06 pm (UTC)(in this case, 60 breaths per minute)
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:55 pm (UTC)potentially pneumonia ;) hence the.. desire for a chest xray :)