Parental Thread

[Tapioca]

What I remember most when my kids were just weeks old was just listening to my wife about her day - the struggles, the small achievements, and the small things that baby did. In other words, being present when my wife needed it was really important.

[EvoFire]

We were at Childrens for over 9 hours yesterday for sustained 40C fever and non stop coughing. 9 fucking hours, we were seen at 6. Normally we would have left by 6 hours.

They did a swab as they were concerned about a 2nd covid infection. Nope, Human metopneumovirus, a relatively new discovery and they said it's similar to RSV. Not supposed to see it in June but here we are in a covid fucked up world where no one has immunity and the weather is all kinds of weird. They had to give him quad dose steroids to calm the coughing so they can get an xray in.

They said the wait was 16 hours the day before, so yay me?

[Traum]

Ugh... that's harsh, esp on the kiddo. I'm sorry to hear that you guys had to go through this.

I hope the little person will feel better soon.

[underscore]

Poor kid, I hope he feels better soon. We just got back from our second trip to emerg in the past 2 weeks for allergic reactions, we were only there for 6 hours this time so I guess we got off lucky.