Wednesday, December 06, 2006

ER - Concussion

So it's been a harrowing 36 hours. Let's start at the beginning shall we?
Alexis - Monday night(by night I mean wicked early Tues. morning like 2am), up coughing, then vomiting. Somewhere in there I heard a huge thump. As I was just getting up from Lexi's bed to get her out of the crib (coughing again) I figured I had knocked something off the bed.
Nope.
"Waahhhh! Mommy, Mommy!!" and thump, thump, thump of Brooke footsteps.
"What, what" I asked
"I fell out of my bed."
I picked her up and soothed and checked her head. She was OK and coherent. She lied back down and went to sleep.
Back to Lexi - I took her in to our room where she puked all over me. We took a shower (3am). I tried to get her back to bed but the minute she laid down she'd cough until she threw up.
I finally gave up and brought her down to the couch to watch a show - thinking at least she'll be upright for awhile. This seemed to be working aside from the exhaustion (mine).
Now (3:30am) I hear Brooke get up - oh sh*t I think, she heard the tv and wants in on this. NO way. John intercepts her and I can't really hear whats going on over Dora repeating "Vamanos" three hundred times.
All is quiet (except Dora, she truly never shuts up). Then. Thump, thump, thump. Now Brooke is throwing up. John sounds like he's doing a good job of being calm but I know the inner John is freaking out so I go to see what's going on. She is pale, throwing up, fell on head - calling the Dr.
100 questions - off to the Emergency room.
John stays with Lexi who goes right back to sleep for him after we leave, the little stinker.
Brooke throws up 3 more times in the car and she tries valiantly not to make a mess but it doesn't work.
We wait for 1 hour, get a CT scan, wait another hour, move to a room, get a brief Dr. visit, wait again, finally get the dr. back saying the CT scan was normal and she'll continue to toss her cookies for the rest of the day and to slowing increase her food intake. Of course, Brooke is dehydrated and starving so this doesn't go well but we did it and now it's the next day.
So what was your day like?

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