If you follow the Twitters, you know that we headed into the ER last night.
As I was wrapping up at work yesterday, the wife sent me an email:
Annie has a little infection on her shunt scar.
I looked at the clock and it was already 4:45 - just 15 minutes before the Neurologist's office closed . . .
I dropped everything and raced to the car to get my magic binder. I was already thumbing through it as I headed back to my desk. I called the Neuro and they said we should take her to the ER. Well, okay. I called the wife and gave her the news - she started packing the diaper bag.
We fed Annie before heading out as we had no idea how long this would stretch out.
When we arrived at the ER it was PACKED. A nurse was talking with a mother and explaining how sorry she was that she had been waiting 45 minutes but that there was nothing the nurse could do . . .
We went through all the usual questions . . . "Have you been here before? . . . . Has Annabelle ever had any surgeries . . . ." - heh. We only ended up waiting about 5 minutes before they called us in. I have no idea why we were able to "jump the line" so quickly but we weren't complaining.
In any case, the resident took a look, phoned the Neuro on call and everyone concurred that the small spots of pus were probably just sutures from the shunt revision working their way out. We have a Pediatrician appointment on Monday and a CT Scan on Tuesday so we will have them take a second and third look.
It's just one of those things. If you saw these little white dots on a typical child, you wouldn't think anything of it - but when they are at the site of a shunt with close access to the brain you start to worry . . .
In the end, we were home by 9pm - the whole thing only taking an hour and a half or so - and as a bonus we didn't have to pay the $100 ER co-pay.
Just another evening at the Linden's . . . .
Hey! It's Friday! :-)
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