Roo Illness.

[porphyrin]

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.

Comments

[svb1972.livejournal.com]

I bet.. pediatricians.. dread having pediatricians as patients..

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Heh.

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.

[svb1972.livejournal.com]

but.. you're about to be a fully licensed out-there-doing-the-dirty-work peds yorself in what.. just a couple of months?

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

Being lazy and preferring an exlpanation from someone who I know can talk in non-doctor person words when necessary, I have to ask...

What's trachypnea?

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Real fast breathing. :)
(in this case, 60 breaths per minute)

[svb1972.livejournal.com]

fever + fast breathing.. probably nothing
potentially pneumonia ;) hence the.. desire for a chest xray :)