To sum up our day - BUGGER BUGGER BUGGER!!!!
This will be a ramble, rant and moan!!
We started the day early - up at 5am, with dd2 being dropped at my mums at 6.15 this morning. Arrived at the hospital, got admitted, waited for a littl while on the ward.
So far so good......
Then the anaethetist arrives and starts to check out dd1 who has a bit of a cough but nothing serious - she is still being dd1 - no slowing down, nothing.... BUT the anaethetist decides that she does not want to risk surgery - so cancels us at 9am. She also demands that dd1 have a chest x-ray and be seen by a respiratory physician - BUGGER - we got ourselves all psyched up for this to be today. Also horrified that medical specialist calls my dd1 the down syndrome girl from England..... dd1 had the little cough last week when we did our pre op appt and the ent specialist knew exactly why the surgery had been cancelled by the phone conversation - SO why not cancel it last week or get it checked out 10 days ago when we were at the hospital.
Luckily - dd1 could go and eat and eat she did - two slices of very thick raisin bread and almost 2 bacon and egg muffins ( dh's and mine.) Unluckily they wanted all this done today - so return to waiting room - then off for x-ray - so far so good. They then suction a sample from her chest as well... not pleasant although very quick. At about 11am we were taken to the ward - full of ill kids and dd1 bouncing off the walls - or actually the bed!!! Physio arrives to do some physio on dd1's chest - which she hates....
We wait and wait and finally about 1pm the respiratory physican arrives to say yes she sounds crackly and we need to give her antibiotics....and wants to send the physio back to teach us how to do the physio. Brief shining moment - when the respiratory doc arrives - as he is putting on stethoscope dd1 lifts up her nighty and puts it on her chest/stomach ready - very cute....
Then we wait almost 2 hours for someone to write us a script - for most of the day we had been ignored - once we got on the ward - don't see why we could not have gone home and then seen GP. Finally I ask where the script is - resp. doc did not write it - have to wait for registrar....that particular ward doc busy with emergency - fair enough- BUT they want to make us wait for the script.... Dh suggests that we know what the resp doc wanted and we would get GP to write script - nurse suggests that as we would have to pay - we should wait but she has no idea how long it would be - there were plenty of other docs wandering aroun d- how hard is it to write a script for a basic antibiotic....
So finally at 2.30pm - I call our GP who is more than happy to write the script - no charge. So dh and I tell them we are leaving.... nurse looks unimpressed but I figure after almost 8 hours there we are entitled to go home.....
BUT our crappy day doesn't end there - get back to car and the battery is dead as dead.... so finally we call out RAC and get new battery - whilst waiting for RAC - spy dd1 has NIT eggs as I am combing her hair!!!!!!!!! $120 later leave the hospital grounds at 4pm...tired, grumpy.. and that is just dh and I.
Now we have to wait 4 - 6 weeks to have another surgery date - just when dd1 is due to start new kindy and sedu kindy.... okay - no big deal but it is - I would like her to start kindy with the others iyswim.......
Antibiotics and inner health to boost her immune system, see GP in a week......
So now dh and I are knackered despite sitting around all day - two babies are in bed.
sorry to bore you all.....