how we spent Easter w/ PIP

leslie13510 · April 2009

I haven't been around for the last week or so because we were visiting family and just generally busy. Easter was... interesting to say the least. Here's why:

We put the kids to bed on Good Friday like normal and everything was fine. DH woke up around midnight because Nathan was crying and went to give him his pacifier back. He noticed that Riley was laying on her side with her back arched and her head back. He went to pick her up and she was completely stiff and wouldn't straighten out. He noticed she was breathing slow and heavy, was drooling a lot, and was generally unresponsive compared to normal. He woke me up at that point and we suctioned her nose and mouth and did the whole infant choking routine. After a couple of minutes she seemed to be fine. She was a little congested and we figured she just had some of that in her airway and that it was hard to breathe around it, but because we weren't sure what had happened, or how long she had been like that, we took her to the ER.

The ER doc (1st year resident... not specialized in pediatrics) was absolutely certain she had had a seizure. Cue my breakdown. We were admitted to the hospital at 3am. The pediatrician on call ordered basically every test in the book without even seeing her, based on the ER doc's "diagnosis" or whatever you want to call it. The poor girl had 2 different MRI's, chest x-rays, GI tract x-rays, EKG, EEG, ultrasounds, flu test, RSV test, and enough bloodwork to last a lifetime. Everything came back negative thankfully. The neurologist obviously couldn't say it wasn't a seizure, but he couldn't find anything wrong (and thought it was just congestion) so he cleared her to go home.

They don't have a pedi cardiologist on staff and he was supposed to come on Monday to see her but decided that morning he wasn't going to come. He was the only reason we were still there on Monday... otherwise we could have gone home Saturday evening. Fvcker. The first pediatrician we saw was an IDIOT and pretty much refused to give any possible reasons for what happened other than a seizure (AFTER the neuro guy said he doubted it was). She refused to discharge us until we saw the cardio guy, which wouldn't be until Wednesday because he decided one 6 week old baby wasn't worth his time to drive up the 2 hours.

FINALLY on Monday we saw a competent pedi who thought it was ridiculous to wait around another 2 days when she also thought she had choked on phlegm. So we were finally discharged yesterday evening with instructions to flush her with saline 2-3 times a day and see our pedi sometime this week.

I am SO glad they won't remember their first Easter.

nlvaden · April 2009

O my gosh! Poor girl! I was just going to ask if anyone had heard anything from you latley. I hope you get a better answer about what happened. However, being a medic, I see this often. I can honestly say it could have been a seizure. Babies have them more often than people think and they have no long term affects. GL

Mrs.C042807 · April 2009

OMG, leslie. How traumatic.

N&G 5_26_07 · April 2009

Oh my god - I am so sorry. I am glad all are doing well!

nikkifudgestick · April 2009

That is definitely quite an Easter! I'm sorry y'all had to go through all that bull, but at least they checked everything and you know she's ok now!

I love your new sig pic though!

Ms.Scarlet · April 2009

Wow - what a horrible experience. So glad to hear everything is okay now. Sorry you had to go through that.

Wifey421Brooke · April 2009

I am so sorry you all had to deal with that. Good think she was ok, And how is she doing now?

Mrs. Sarah Nicole · April 2009

Im sorry to hear that yuo had a crappy first Easter with your little ones but I am also glad to hear that she is home safe and sound!!

SuperTreesa · April 2009

Glad to hear she is okay. That had to be incredibly scary!

staycee · April 2009

wow!

good thing your DH checked on her when he did.

poor little thing.

glad all is well now.

greenclown · April 2009

OMG, how scary. I hope everything is okay.

Krisito · April 2009

OMG, I'm so sorry that happened but am glad you and the little ones are okay.

leslie13510 · April 2009

nlvaden:
O my gosh! Poor girl! I was just going to ask if anyone had heard anything from you latley. I hope you get a better answer about what happened. However, being a medic, I see this often. I can honestly say it could have been a seizure. Babies have them more often than people think and they have no long term affects. GL

I hope it wasn't, but yeah I know it could have been a seizure. I was just pissed that we still couldn't leave after the neuro guy ran all his tests and cleared her. Especially because at that point all her cardio tests had been run and came back fine, he just hadn't physically SEEN her.

The second pedi thought it was probably congestion because she was pretty stuffy when we put her to bed even though we had suctioned her, and it was more of a mucus than actual runny drool she had around midnight. Either way she was completely fine the entire 3 days she was in the hospital so we still don't know for sure what happened.

Shell* · April 2009

Awww glad Riley is ok! Hopefully next Easter will be less eventful for you. Your babies look more adorable every day!

tedandlaurie04 · April 2009

How scary! Thank goodness she's home.

Your new sig is precious.

sweetpea7628 · April 2009

OMG I'm so sorry! I hope that everying is ok with Riley. Poor girl!

lenloe · April 2009

omg i'm so sorry. i'm glad she's okay!

Alex17 · April 2009

Yikes. So glad she is okay!

juietbride · April 2009

Your poor family! I am happy to hear that your baby girl is ok, I hope all continues to go well.

*KC*luvs*RJ* · April 2009

That poor little girl! I really hope everything turns out completely ok an that it was just phlegm. I'll be praying for you. :-)

KK2004 · April 2009

I'm so sorry you all had to go through that, poor Riley. I'm glad she's okay and that things are back to normal now. Your siggy pic is so precious.

Belinda L · April 2009

I am so sorry. That is super scary. I hope you get more answers about what happened to her. That is one thing that pissed me off when I worked in the ER and peds... some Drs just didn't have their freaking act together. I used to get into bad arguments with them about the tourture they put those poor babies through with testing. I'm glad to see she's home and doing better. Your babies are beautiful.

aggie_teacher · April 2009

Holy cow! I was thinking about you yesterday and wondering about those beautiful twins. I'm so glad everything is ok, but I'd like to come down there and kick that ER doc in the nads.