We interupt this weekend...

It is amazing how a child's illness can completely halt all plans and chnage priorities in a heartbeat.

Well, as you guess where I'm going here- this past weekend was a rough go. Saturday night while enjoying a BBQ at Jsquared the contents of Phia’s stomach decided it liked it better out than in, and the Exorcist Vomiting (copyright Jaimer) began. After watching her situation deteriorate hourly until about 1:30 that night we decided to take her to the ER in Fredericton.

/- Insert reader’s Digest version rant about that status of health care in NB

We arrived at about 2 am, duty nurse attempts to dissuade me from staying saying it will be a “long wait” I say no I’d rather be here with her, she says “a really, really long wait”

At any rate it was a long wait, 2.5 hrs just to get into a little room, while Phia slept, puked, pooped, cried, puked, napped.

But I felt worse for the people who were already there when I got there and were still there when we got called in.

Case in point a young university girl who had fallen and was pretty sure her arm was broken, sat there with a bag of ice that had been on her arm so long that she could have made lukewarm tea in it. She was sleeping in a chair when we left at 6:30.

The funny (and by funny I mean Not-Funny) thing is there were three nurses who sat at the desk and did nothing but drink coffee. They got up and walked back and forth a couple times, and apparently they were “full” but there was only one doctor on…and they aren’t allowed to do anything with out him…

WTF? Unbelievable, unacceptable

End rant -/

Long story short, Phia has a particularly violent case of the pukeys, which will turn to the runny poops. It was scary to see her dehydrated-listless- lifeless, but fortunately she is on the mend, and a spokesgirl for Gatorade!!

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.