I'm surprised it took 2.5 hours to get her on the IV. I would've been pretty unhappy about that, especially since the nurses told you to give her the solution after 15 minutes of no vomiting, even though you'd told them she was consistently vomiting more often than that. If they'd listened to you, they would've put her at a higher triage level in the first place rather than making her wait 45 minutes with no treatment because she couldn't keep anything down.
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
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