I had to take Walt to the hospital (in Vegas) last Monday. We noticed he had a sore on his knee when it was already scabbed over and didn't think much of it; than, ouch (at the time I didn't know you can still treat a scabbed sore). Anyway, a few days after we did notice it, we realize it was infected and of course it was late Saturday night and so we decided to wait until Monday. I brought him into the doctors on Monday and my doctor is also a Quick Care doc., so she did everything right there for him in her office. She gave him a shoot in his knee, cut his knee open, drained his knee, gave him a tetanus, and a shoot of antibiotic in his bum. While me and a nurse had to hold him down, poor baby! Then my doc. said she couldn't drain it all the way and is afraid it's in the bone and ordered me to go straight to Sunrise Hospital in Vegas. (We do have a hospital, but a small one that really wouldn't have been able to do a bone test). So I went to Vegas and met Danny on his way home (from Vegas) on the road to give our little Walt a blessing. After hours of waiting (thankfully in our own room, besides the $) the Resident came in and looked, but told me they only will do an MRI on babies not an X-Ray to see if it's in the bone, but went to talk it over with her "team". The Doctor came in and without even looking at his knee said, nope it's not in the bone he just needs some antibiotics and you can go home. Of course I was very grateful all was well I was still like what? The Doc. said, "he is moving his leg and wanting to walk on it and doesn't look sick at all. If it was in the bone his leg would be stiff and he would be very sick." We arrived home at 11:30 pm with a nice hospital bill. Walt's been on his antibiotics since T and his knee looks great, just a little pink is all.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Walt
I had to take Walt to the hospital (in Vegas) last Monday. We noticed he had a sore on his knee when it was already scabbed over and didn't think much of it; than, ouch (at the time I didn't know you can still treat a scabbed sore). Anyway, a few days after we did notice it, we realize it was infected and of course it was late Saturday night and so we decided to wait until Monday. I brought him into the doctors on Monday and my doctor is also a Quick Care doc., so she did everything right there for him in her office. She gave him a shoot in his knee, cut his knee open, drained his knee, gave him a tetanus, and a shoot of antibiotic in his bum. While me and a nurse had to hold him down, poor baby! Then my doc. said she couldn't drain it all the way and is afraid it's in the bone and ordered me to go straight to Sunrise Hospital in Vegas. (We do have a hospital, but a small one that really wouldn't have been able to do a bone test). So I went to Vegas and met Danny on his way home (from Vegas) on the road to give our little Walt a blessing. After hours of waiting (thankfully in our own room, besides the $) the Resident came in and looked, but told me they only will do an MRI on babies not an X-Ray to see if it's in the bone, but went to talk it over with her "team". The Doctor came in and without even looking at his knee said, nope it's not in the bone he just needs some antibiotics and you can go home. Of course I was very grateful all was well I was still like what? The Doc. said, "he is moving his leg and wanting to walk on it and doesn't look sick at all. If it was in the bone his leg would be stiff and he would be very sick." We arrived home at 11:30 pm with a nice hospital bill. Walt's been on his antibiotics since T and his knee looks great, just a little pink is all.
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I've been a little worried. The painful part is now the hospital bill and I feel your pain!
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