The doctor decided to put bubby into hospital overnight for observation. Which sounds wonderfully attentive of him, but I had four other kids to think about.
My husband was out mowing lawns for our clients and of course it's Christmas so everyone needs their lawns mowed. He was already behind in mowing the lawns due to rain and unexpected overtime at his other seasonal job. My mum had injured herself so she couldn't look after them, my grandmother is 84 and certainly couldn't handle 4 boisterous kids.
I went from the private Medical Centre across the road to the public Hospital. Filled out all the paperwork and was allowed to go home to collect my 2yr old from daycare, bath and feed the kids and wait for hubby to come home before returning to hospital for a sleepover.
Bub and I got room number 1, right near the nurses station. There weren't many patients in the hospital and bub being only 9weeks old all the nurses were coming in to visit the baby. I would have to say it was the nicest stay in hospital I've ever had. For once I wasn't the patient, I was the patient's handbag :)
As our Hospital is a learning hospital I had not one but three Hospital doctors come in to see me in the morning. One of them said that bub's stats had been good overnight and that they weren't doing anything in hospital that I couldn't do at home. I was waiting for him to say that we could go home, but instead he said that he'd come back and check in with us in the afternoon. BUGGER! Here I was thinking I'd be home by 9am.
Without a TV in the room, I got to lye in bed all day and read my book (that I was given at Christmas 2010 and I'd taken into hospital with me when I had bub in Oct but still never got to read). I read the whole book while I was in there and was only really interrupted for feeds....mine and his. Don't tell my hubby this, but I LOVED it! I got uninterrupted sleep and food brought to me. For once these holidays I didn't have someone calling out "MUUUUUMMMM".
If I'd known that I'd be in hospital all day though, I'd have got hubby to drop us off at the hospital so at least he could have the family car. Now not only did hubby have to take the day off work, but he was literally stuck at home with the kids.
4pm came and I asked a nurse if the doctor was coming back. All she could tell me was that he'd be over after he'd finished at out-patients.
8pm came and I asked a different nurse and explained the situation of having more children at home to take care of. She kindly went off to find and speak with the doctor. He came back apologising, but also making the comment that he'd have been to see me earlier if people would stop trying to kill themselves.
I guess that puts my problem into perspective.
He told me to take bub home and said that if it were up to him we wouldn't have been admitted in the first place. I said that I was hoping he'd have let us go home in the morning. His reply was that he thought I wanted to stay in.
Maybe the dark puffy rings under my eyes made him think I could do with some sleep? lol
It's good you had a fairly positive experience at the hospital. I find it quite frustrating when waiting for doctors but im sure everyone else does too. I need to learn more patience. I'm off to the outpatients plastic surgery clinic with my mr 3 tomorrow and i am assuming I will have a giant wait. So not looking forward to that! I'm glad your bub was sorted and hope all the kids are better now. hi5 for hubby staying home with all the other kids:D
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