AllieBaba
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I get sick of the hype also but my son has been sick for almost three weeks now, I thought he was better and then he has a fever again today. It scares the shit out of me too because of the weight he has lost.
Bingo. It's swine flu. And what happens when a kid is sick that long and loses that much weight, organs start shutting down.
Have you taken him to the hospital yet? Or do you, as a single mom using state health care continue to be told not to worry about it and stop wasting the time of the clinicians?
Trust your instincts and if you have to be a vociferous advocate. My sister, at the time a prosecuting attorney, dragged nurses and doctors into my room after I'd been in labor for three days and they kept sending me home. My baby's first apgar when he finally was born was something like 2. He was essentially dead. White, limp, not breathing. He would have died if she hadn't forced them to come in.
At delivery time, she had to round them up also, because when I finally did deliver, there was nobody around. They didn't even have time to set up the birthing bed. This after I told them repeatedly, once I reach 7 centimeters, get ready to catch because that's it. They didn't listen, they futzed around and left me alone for an hour at a time and I almost got to deliver my own baby. As it was I had a nurse HOLDING MY BABY IN to give the ER dr time to get upstairs to deliver.
If he's losing weight, he's dehydrated, and that's something that needs to be monitored because once it gets past a certain point the kidneys and liver shut down. The reason I have crappy credit is because I said fuck you to OHP and took my kids to the ER when they were sick. The one time I didn't, I waited and my little girl (3 months old) had been sick for a while, I made an appointment with her pediatrician who did an O2 test on her and they had 4 nurses in there in about 5 minutes, giving her oxygen and monitoring her for her O2 to come up, because if it didn't in 5 minutes, to the hospital she was going.
It did, but I had to nebulize her every 20 minutes to an hour for 3 more months...she had that other allegedly harmless virus..I can't remember what it's called...oh, that upper respiratory one.