Yeah, but you should know that it looked like pretty much every other kid in the crowded waiting room (since this was a children's hospital) was also a kid/toddler/baby suffering from flu or norovirus, and her initial vitals looked fine; I have no difficulty believing that in the circumstances she legitimately seemed like a lower priority than many of the other children (some of which looked REALLY bad to my layman's eye). I also truthfully answered that she'd had a pee since she started vomiting, which meant that she hadn't gone the "six hours without peeing" that is part of the dehydration checklist. (She peed right when she started vomiting, so that was probably just the urine already in her bladder, and I think may have been misleading to them, as her condition got so bad so fast.) I was fully prepared to not even be seen until midnight, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Also I suspect the bigger hold up with the IV was because they needed to do an x-ray first and there was a backlog at the xray (overnight they only have one tech I think).
Children can go 18 hours vomiting in extreme cases without getting into danger, according to what they gave me, so I trust that they triaged correctly. (Diarrhea and sweating are both much faster at dehydrating than vomiting, and Pippa was only vomiting, whereas I'm pretty sure many of the other children in the waiting room had diarrhea or had flu and were sweating.)
Also I suspect the bigger hold up with the IV was because they needed to do an x-ray first and there was a backlog at the xray (overnight they only have one tech I think).
Children can go 18 hours vomiting in extreme cases without getting into danger, according to what they gave me, so I trust that they triaged correctly. (Diarrhea and sweating are both much faster at dehydrating than vomiting, and Pippa was only vomiting, whereas I'm pretty sure many of the other children in the waiting room had diarrhea or had flu and were sweating.)
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