No such luck
Well, I was hoping that this week at my parents would allow us to just chill and take a load off from the last two weeks but it seems that will not be our luck.
Shelbie continues to suffer immensely with this stupid eye infection. Yesterday was so bad. It was not only the discomfort she was feeling from day three of her eyes swollen and glued shut with infection but her anxiety was rising too and that complicated the day.
Finally, at about 10:00pm last night, I got the hairbrain idea to call the after hours on call Oncologist back at Seattle Childrens. The doc was so nice and looked up Shelbie's past labs and notes from last week and then instructed me to take her to the nearest ER. He called ahead and gave the ER docs here her history and a detailed protocol of how they should treat her and then the docs here in Coeur D Alene were to report back to Seattle all the findings and results. It worked like a charm and I felt relieved that Seattle did that for me.
The hospital here was amazing! We had two doctors since the shift was changing and they were both wonderful. Had the nicest personalities and great bedside manner. They made Shelbie laugh and really put her mind to rest. The nurses were all male and they were great too.
Turns out she has a pretty bad infection, likely to be a Strep bacteria in her eyes. They did a bunch of Opthalmology testing and her cornea and pressure were fine but the back of her eyes were full of infection and inflammation. They started her on more antibiotics but if things don't turn around in the next 24 hours, she will have to be hospitalized.
It was interesting how much ones perspective matters. The doc here said her white count was normal so the infection couldn't be that bad. True her white count was normal for a normal person but Shelbie's normal is only 2 or below so her count was actually more than triple what is 'normal' for her. A triple count for you or me would have doctors tripping over themselves to find the infection source. Interesting.
So, no rest for the wicked...the chaos continues.
Shelbie continues to suffer immensely with this stupid eye infection. Yesterday was so bad. It was not only the discomfort she was feeling from day three of her eyes swollen and glued shut with infection but her anxiety was rising too and that complicated the day.
Finally, at about 10:00pm last night, I got the hairbrain idea to call the after hours on call Oncologist back at Seattle Childrens. The doc was so nice and looked up Shelbie's past labs and notes from last week and then instructed me to take her to the nearest ER. He called ahead and gave the ER docs here her history and a detailed protocol of how they should treat her and then the docs here in Coeur D Alene were to report back to Seattle all the findings and results. It worked like a charm and I felt relieved that Seattle did that for me.
The hospital here was amazing! We had two doctors since the shift was changing and they were both wonderful. Had the nicest personalities and great bedside manner. They made Shelbie laugh and really put her mind to rest. The nurses were all male and they were great too.
Turns out she has a pretty bad infection, likely to be a Strep bacteria in her eyes. They did a bunch of Opthalmology testing and her cornea and pressure were fine but the back of her eyes were full of infection and inflammation. They started her on more antibiotics but if things don't turn around in the next 24 hours, she will have to be hospitalized.
It was interesting how much ones perspective matters. The doc here said her white count was normal so the infection couldn't be that bad. True her white count was normal for a normal person but Shelbie's normal is only 2 or below so her count was actually more than triple what is 'normal' for her. A triple count for you or me would have doctors tripping over themselves to find the infection source. Interesting.
So, no rest for the wicked...the chaos continues.
I hope Shelbie gets feeling better soon. Like you guys need anything else to go wrong!!!
ReplyDeleteI saw the picture. It makes my eyes hurt just looking at the photo. I hope she gets feeling better soon.
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