I was going to write about sleep. I had started writing a post about how little sleep I get and how my kids always come into my bed and keep me awake. Then last night I had to go to the emergency room at my local hospital.
My youngest son, who will be 2 in a few weeks stuck something in his ear. I heard an ear piercing scream, I went to see what had happened and he was holding his ear and a twig. I put 2 and 2 together. He ran off to his room after I attempted to look at his ear and spent the next 30 minutes holding his ear, with his thumb in his mouth and cried quietly to himself. I decided I should take him to emergency to make sure he was alright.
We arrived at our local hospital and as soon as we got to the triage nurse, he was his happy, normal self. The triage nurse told me even though he seemed happy now there still could be a problem with his ear, so we sat down to wait for the doctor. The waiting room was packed, it was a very busy night by the looks of things. There were a few parents there with their kids plus a couple of drunk guys who were singing (not very well) and nurses and doctors trying to get everyone seen in a reasonable amount of time.
As we sat and waited I was disgusted that the nurses were verbally abused by quite a few people because they felt they should be seen straight away and shouldn't be made to wait. Nurses and doctors in our hospitals are wonderful people who do the best they can. They do not deserve the abuse thrown at them.
We were finally called in and a doctor looked into bubba's ear. She saw a bug in their. Yes, a bug. I went in their because he stuck something in his ear and we find out there is a bug in there. My son did not want to have his ear looked at, or touched or any of that. He kept pushing the doctor away and told her to 'go away'.
The doctor told me we would have to get the bug out. They gave him something to relax him a little bit and a nurse held him in place while to doctor got the bug out. My poor child was screaming the whole time. I wanted to cry, I hated that he was distressed and there was nothing I could do about it.
The doctor got the bug out and we found out that it was a mozzie. Yes, my child had a mosquito in his ear. He calmed down considerably and we went home and he fell asleep perfectly happy. That was our adventure to the emergency room over.
Nurses and Doctors deserve out support and gratitude, they are life savers and angels and they work so hard to help people who are injured and ill. They deserve our gratitude and thanks.
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