When I reread my last post it makes me seem like some paranoid person about the medical profession. I've had great doctors all through my life. I know they go into the profession to help people and solve problems. In my own experience, I had a doc in NY who always ordered a battery of tests. Then I moved to MN and my new doctor who I really liked said many of the tests were unnecessary, and she found his treatments to be over-the-top for my case. Although, she ended up being right, it was tough to give up some of those tests that gave me a sense of control over my condition. I think the over-testing/over-treatment issues are a 2-way street. There are parts of the Affordable Care Act that reward hospitals based on their patients customer service surveys. I think this can put a lot of care staff in a pickle. They can do everything right, but if a doctor refuses an unnecessary test that the patient wants, they aren't going to get a good customer survey. It can be a tough profession.
On another note, we took Penelope to the indoor playground today. She saw friends from preschool and played for over 2 hours. I got to talk to a mom I had seen a couple of times at drop-off. Lo and behold, she is a neurologist at Mayo! She specializes in headaches, but obviously knows about seizures and has worked with the pediatric neurologists. So we talked about our Thursday experience with her. It was like a 10 minute counseling session. She was great and reassured me that the chances are very high that this was a 1 time incident. Also, she's really down-to-earth. Like me she does not do well entertaining her 4-year-old at home in the winter and her husband works on the weekends so we planned Saturday play dates at the indoor playground for the rest of the winter.
Penelope has been completely her normal self for a few days now. She has no recollection of the hospital until that moment where she snapped out of the zombie like state. The neurologist I talked to today said that is normal and she'll probably never remember those 4 hours. Chris and I agreed it seems like Thursday was a really bad dream. I hope it stays that way.
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Parenting - never a dull moment and no crystal ball - sometimes even a magic 8 ball (that you just might trust) would be welcome!
Laura, I just read what you have been through in the last few days.........I am SO sorry, but so very grateful tha you are where you are! It is so scary for me to read about, I can't imagine going through it! However, I know that being able to lean on each other and the strength you share will get you through. You all are always in my thoughts and prayers and please know I love you all very much.........I am always just a phone call and plane ride away! Please hug each other for me!
Oh I love when that happens! When you run right into the people you need to at the right time. Same thing happened when I started to worry about Collin's speech. I had been assigned a brand new visiting teacher at church and she happend to be a speech language pathologist. And gosh an indoor playground. Why doesn't Arizona get with the program and get cool stuff like Minnesota? We could use those in the summer! :)
I am just catching up on all your posts and I think that meeting that mom today didn't happen by accident.
Someone upstairs was looking out for you!
Thank goodness :) Literally!
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