Emergency Room

Yesterday was a pretty slow day.
Plans to babysit Ash fell through, and I forgot about the FFA Movie Night, so I stayed home.

Around 9:00pm, my grandma and grandpa stopped by to say hello and see how Savannah was doing. (On Monday she was diagnosed with Pink Eye)

About 10:00, my grandma helped my mom give her her medicine and get in bed, because she had been comlaining about a stomachache.

Savannah wasn't in bed for 10 minutes when we heard this terryfying shrill and then she just started crying.
Mom went and got her out of bed, and after 15 minutes of crying in pain, mom realized she had a slight fever and was holding on to her right side. Thinking appendicitis, we rushed her to the ER.

We arrived at the hospital about 10:30 and the ER was kind of busy, but not really.
Savannah was called back pretty quick. Mom and grandma went with her, and I sat with grandpa in the waiting room, because there's a 2 visitors policy.

We waited there until 2:00am for my grandma to come out and tell us that they had taken blood, put an IV in and done an xray and that it would be 30 minutes before they knew results. Then she went back to the back and we sat there until 4:00am.

This time it was mom who came to update us. She said they were going to give Savannah four 30 minute sessions of contrast juice so that they could take her for a CatScan to check her appendix. We went for a bite to eat and then it was back to the waiting room.

So, at 6, we went back and checked on the situation. Tired of sitting in the waiting room chairs trying to catch at least a little sleep, we totally ignored the 2 visitors policy.

When we got back there, Savannah had just gotten back from CatScan. We sait there until about 7:00am waiting for the radiologist to call. Finally, after hours of IV fluids, contrast juice, xrays, catscans, and discomfort; my little sister found out that there was no appendicitis and she wasn't going to have surgery.

The doctor on call told us that Savannah has a Urinary Tract Infection and that is what is causing her pain.

He gave her an antibiotic, and finally, at 7:30am, after almost 9 hours in the ER, we were out of there.

Needless to say, this family has been asleep all morning.


Savannah is still asleep, poor thing.