April 7th - Charlie's first ER visit

On Wednesday night after about 21 hours of a variety of symptoms – cough, runny nose, fever, increased respirations, complaints of a tummy ache, and throwing up – I took Charlie to the ER.

So here is how the ER went:
8:25pm – Checked in
10:30pm – Finally made it into triage after Charlie was fully asleep
11:15pm – Registration for payment
12:30am – Got water and animal crackers for Charlie who had been asking for a snack.
12:45am – Got back to a room
1:15am – Saw the doctor who then ordered a chest x-ray
1:30am – Nurse checked Charlie’s temp, which was back down to normal
2:15am – Chest x-ray to make sure he didn’t have asymptomatic pneumonia
3:07am – Left the hospital
3:40am – Put Charlie to bed and then collapsed myself
5:45am – Both boys woke up. Ronny brought them downstairs and they all slept another hour or so.

Charlie was sent home with a diagnosis of bronchitis and fever. He was acting completely normal by the time we saw the doctor – reading books and playing in the hospital room.

Unfortunately this was not the first ER trip for the Baccus family this year. On March 21st, Ronny took Jack to the ER a couple of days after he hit his head hard on the corner of a wall upstairs. We knew that we should be on the lookout for brain trauma symptoms and 2 days after the bonk, he started throwing up. He turned out to be fine, thank goodness.