Thursday, June 26, 2008

Kalan Scaring Us to Death

So we had a lovely experience last Thursday night!! Kalan had passed out for the 3rd time in 3 days and the doctor didn't want to wait for an appn to come up for neurological testing, so we went to the ER here. Poor baby endured a very traumatic event of a catheter bringing NOTHING, missing his vein for blood draw and almost coming out the other side of his skin, THEN they got a vein in his hand and had to keep a line in for an IV, just in case, and had to strap his arm to a board and tape it up to keep the line in. Then since the catheter brought no urine they put a bag on him that he would just go in and the incompetent nurse that barely spoke English, said we need a lot more when the LPN said they only needed a few drops. 3 hours later, with 2 hours of the call button pushed because he had PLENTY of pee, the LPN came in to get it and GUESS WHAT??? The seal had broken and the pee went into his diaper, but she just needed a few drops so she used what was on the sides. STUPID PEOPLE???!! If that nurse would have taken what was there the 1st time, or perhaps answered the call button before 2 HOURS, they wouldn't have had to "save" what was left. ANYWAYS... then they did a chest X-ray, EKG, and Head CT. All came back negative and they decided to transfer him to University of Maryland in Baltimore. We went via ambulance and made great timing, as he was going mighty fast! I sat in the front seat and Dennis drove my car. I couldn't see Kalan but he was calm once we started moving on the gurney and then they got in the ambulance and turned on Dora and he was in Heaven!! He stayed awake for the 1st hour of the drive and it only took about 2 to get there, LIKE I SAID, GREAT TIMING! :) So then we get there and they hook him up to monitors and the nurses were SO nice and COMPETENT! LOL! So we finally got Kalan to sleep around 4 am and then he woke up at 8! We then waited until 10 got all of the tests done in one sweep while he was HEAVILY sedated. He had stop being cooperative after the catheter incident!! So They did an EEG, Brain waves, EKG, heart waves, and Echocardiogram, Ultrasound of his heart. Around 12pm they told us the EEG and neuro reflex testing and other tests the neuro doc did, were all negative and they felt it was breathe holding. They recommended he be released as soon as the cardio doc gave the green light. We waited and WAITED and waited, until 6pm!!! The cardio doc came in for LITERALLY 5 minutes and told us that he had a sick baby born with heart disease.....AWWWWWWWW!!!! But that Kalan was absolutley perfect and it was just breathe holding. That he didn't feel he knew what he was doing right now, but that in the future he could discover his WONDEROUS ability to pass out and use it to manipulate us! ISN'T THAT GREAT?? Oh and the best part is he said, Don't expect it to stop!!! Well, he hasn't had anymore episodes and has been extra static cling to mommy! BUT, he is PERFECTLY HEALTHY and that is all that matters! Thanks for all your prayers during this insane time!